J-Tweeters

Hedman, Ulrika

doi:10.1080/21670811.2014.897833

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“…These infrequent users are twice as likely to distrust social media as users who post original content to social media sites multiple times a day. The correspondence between heavier use of social media and greater levels of trust in its content may shed light on the ongoing debate about whether or not journalists who are very active on social media deviate from traditional professional practices and norms (Hedman & Djerf-Pierre, 2013;Hedman, 2015;Lasorsa, Lewis, & Holton, 2012). However, such an investigation is beyond the scope of this current paper.…”

Section: Trust In Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 89%

Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media^*

Heravi

Harrower

2016

Information, Communication & Society

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Twitter has been widely adopted into journalistic workflows, as it provides instant and widespread access to a plethora of content about breaking news events, while also serving to disseminate reporting on those events. The content on Twitter, however, poses several challenges for journalists, as it arrives unfiltered, full of noise, and at an alarming velocity. Building on the results of the first national survey of social media use in Irish newsrooms, this paper investigates the adoption of social media into journalistic workflows, journalists' attitudes towards various aspects of social media, and the content and perspectives generated by these online communities. It particularly investigates how Twitter shapes the processes of sourcing and verification in newsrooms, and assesses how notions of trust factor into the adoption of the Twitter platform and content into these processes. The paper further analyses relationships between journalist profile and adopted practices and attitudes, and seeks to understand how Twitter operates in the current journalistic landscape. While this paper draws its data from a survey of journalists in Ireland, the analysis of the relationship between trust, sourcing, and verification reveals broader patterns about journalistic values, and how these values and practices may operate in the field of journalism as a whole. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Trust In Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 89%

Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media^*

Heravi

Harrower

2016

Information, Communication & Society

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“…Moving on, while it has been suggested that the active use of social media could be a suitable career strategy for freelance journalists (Hedman 2015), such advice does not appear to have been heeded by the respondents. Indeed, the "type of job" predictor emerged as not significant across all included use variables.…”

Section: Explanatory Factors For Modes Of Usagementioning

confidence: 96%

“…Specifically, the study is based on the results of a survey directed to members of the Norwegian Journalist Association (NJ), the largest labour union for those working in the journalism profession in Norway. The survey was constructed with a broader emphasis, moving beyond the activity of "j-tweeters" (Hedman 2015) and focusing on assessing journalistic practices across several platforms, old and new. Thus, the study has two overarching aims: first, to map which online platforms are employed by Norwegian journalists and in which way, and second, to gauge what characteristics pertaining to individual journalists and the contexts in which they work appear to have influence over the utilization of these types of services.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond “J-Tweeters”

Larsson

Ihlebæk

2016

Journalism Practice

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Based on a survey (N = 1613) directed to members of the Norwegian Journalist Association (NJ), this paper presents an extensive overview of the ways in which comparably older and newer online platforms have been incorporated into the professional lives of Norwegian journalists. While plenty of research is available that explores the uses of Twitter by journalists, the results presented here suggest that Facebook is by far the most frequently used platform throughout the journalistic process-from collecting information, distributing content and engaging with readers. Statistical analyses provide further insights into which variables appear to influence certain modes of usage across the studied platforms. Based on the results, the argument is made that the advantages of using Facebook as a platform for journalistic practices are obvious due to its popularity among the general public, but that this utilization of one platform over others also could be problematic. As Facebook continues to gain leverage towards the newspapers they host, questions of journalistic practices need to come to the fore.

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“…These analyses fit in with more general discussion of social media usage by journalists, such as those conducted by (Hedman, 2015;Hedman and Djerf-Pierre, 2013) Based on a corpus of Twitter feeds of more than thirty journalists covering the trial, this study analyses the content and strategies of these feeds in order to present an understanding of how microblogging is used as a live reporting tool. The journalists selected cover national and international media for the full range of media outlets and are from a range of nationalities and backgrounds.…”

Section: Zeller and Hermida's Analysis Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The main hashtags in use were #OscarTrial and #OscarPistorius, which were used at least 50% of the time by 17 of the 23 accounts. Hashtags arise through a process of osmosis and consensus a news story evolves (Hedman, 2015;Hermida, 2010;Lind, 2012), and by the time of the trial the consensus had evolved around these two tags.…”

Section: Tweet Entities -Hashtagsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The accused is entering the courtroom: the live-tweeting of a murder trial

Knight

2017

Journal of Media Practice

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J-Tweeters

Cited by 65 publications

References 41 publications

Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media^*

Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media^*

Beyond “J-Tweeters”

The accused is entering the courtroom: the live-tweeting of a murder trial

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Cited by 65 publications

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Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media*

Twitter journalism in Ireland: sourcing and trust in the age of social media*

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The accused is entering the courtroom: the live-tweeting of a murder trial

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