Peddling or Creating? Investigating the Role of Twitter in News Reporting

Subasic, Ilija; Berendt, Bettina

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20161-5_21

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“…Honeycutt and Herring (2009), for instance, emphasize the conversationality of Twitter as it supports user-to-user exchanges and as a tool for collaboration. Subasic and Berendt (2011) conclude that social media or citizen journalism do not create news, rather extend news through comments. Hermida (2010), however, argues that Twitter makes data available to para-journalists and can be situated within the trend in citizen journalism and as a system of communication with its own media logic, shapes and structures.…”

Section: Twitter and Tweetingmentioning

confidence: 91%

‘We Are after Ideals’: A Critical Analysis of Ideology in the Tweets by Boko Haram

Chiluwa¹,

Ajiboye²

2015

Glob. media j.

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Section: Twitter and Tweetingmentioning

confidence: 91%

‘We Are after Ideals’: A Critical Analysis of Ideology in the Tweets by Boko Haram

Chiluwa¹,

Ajiboye²

2015

Glob. media j.

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“…In fact, it seems that the majority of trends on Twitter are news related (Kwak, Lee, Park, & Moon, 2010). Moreover, Twitter tends to be used to comment on news stories rather than creating them (or merely announcing them) (Subašić & Berendt, 2011) and so it can be expected to coordinate well with mainstream media news (for Twitter uses by journalists, see Farhi, 2009). It seems likely, however, that the mainstream media would lead Twitter except perhaps in cases where there is mass involvement in a news event, such as a disaster, and the media use Twitter as a significant source of information (e.g., Farhi, 2009;Hermida, 2010).…”

Section: Topics and Trends In Twittermentioning

confidence: 99%

Trending Twitter topics in English: An international comparison

Wilkinson

Thelwall

2012

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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The worldwide span of the microblogging service Twitter gives an opportunity to make international comparisons of trending topics of interest, such as news stories. Previous international comparisons of news interests have tended to use surveys and may bypass topics not well covered in the mainstream media. This article uses 9 months of English tweets from the UK, USA, India, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. Based upon the top 50 trending keywords in each country from the 0.5 billion tweets collected, festivals or religious events are the most common, followed by media events, politics, human interest and sport. US trending topics have the most interest in the other countries and Indian trending topics the least. Conversely, India is the most interested in other countries' trending topics and the US the least. This gives evidence of an international hierarchy of perceived importance or relevance with some issues, such as the international interest in US Thanksgiving celebrations, apparently not being directly driven by the media. This hierarchy echoes, and may be caused by, similar news coverage trends. Whilst the current imbalanced international news coverage does not seem to be out of step with public news interests, the political implication is that the Twitter-using public reflects, and hence seems to implicitly accept, international imbalances in news media agenda setting rather than combatting them. This is a problem for those believing that these imbalances make the media too powerful.

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“…However, in reality, a majority of trends in Twitter are news-related (Kwak et al, 2010). What's more, users tend to post on Twitter to comment on news stories, instead of creating them (Subašić & Berendt, 2011). Therefore, that can be anticipated to work well with mainstream media news (Farhi, 2009).…”

Section: Topics and Trends: Agenda Of Twittermentioning

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First and Second Level Intermedia Agenda-Setting between International Newspapers and Twitter during the Coverage of the 266th Papal Election

Bakan¹,

Melek²

2018

Akdeniz Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi

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This article's main purpose is to understand whether the intermedia agenda-setting effect occurs between the online versions of international newspapers and Twitter during the Papal election in 2013. The researchers have tracked each available country's trending topics on Twitter to understand the popularity of the subject in various countries. The researchers then followed each country available on Twitter at the time when the study was conducted, starting right after the announcement of the new Pope at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican on 12 March 2013 till 15 March 2013 for four days and collected all available data. Later, the researchers collected data from the websites of international newspapers, The New York Times, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Wall Street Journal. Two computer-based content analysis were conducted. In order to understand the relationship amongst these media entities, the cross-lagged panel design with the Rozelle-Campbell (1969) baseline was used. In the end, researchers examined the second level agenda setting effect between media by looking into what was said about the Papal election-positive, negative, or neutral. The results supported both first and second-level agenda setting influence between media.

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Peddling or Creating? Investigating the Role of Twitter in News Reporting

Cited by 35 publications

References 9 publications

‘We Are after Ideals’: A Critical Analysis of Ideology in the Tweets by Boko Haram

‘We Are after Ideals’: A Critical Analysis of Ideology in the Tweets by Boko Haram

Trending Twitter topics in English: An international comparison

First and Second Level Intermedia Agenda-Setting between International Newspapers and Twitter during the Coverage of the 266th Papal Election

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