Political Journalists’ Interaction Networks

Nuernbergk, Christian

doi:10.1080/17512786.2016.1162669

Cited by 43 publications

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“…In other words, the traditional hierarchy of sourcing that privileges some voices over others appears to persist in high-stakes media stories even in social media. The findings of this study on media's sourcing practices in the #Grexit debate complement those of earlier studies (e.g., Lecheler and Kruikemeier 2016;Nuernbergk 2016;Folker and Nölleke 2019;Bentivegna and Marchetti 2018;Borchardt et al 2018), which show that news media even on their Twitter news feeds tend to rely heavily on politicians and media as news sources.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

“…Mourão and Molyneux (2020), in their study of how political reporters in mainstream and non-mainstream outlets in the United States covered on Twitter the first presidential debate in 2016, found out that mainstream journalists essentially reinforced their role as gatekeepers by predominantly using as sources or by interacting with other journalists instead of other actors outside the mainstream media field. Several other studies have also shown that journalists mainly interact with their colleagues on their Twitter accounts and tend to predominantly retweet content published by other journalists and media outlets (Nuernbergk 2016;Folker and Nölleke 2019;Bentivegna and Marchetti 2018).…”

Section: Sourcing and Framing Journalistic Norms And Practices In Thementioning

confidence: 94%

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Tweets That Matter: Reconsidering Journalistic Sourcing and Framing Processes in the Context of the #Grexit Debate

Kollias¹,

Kountouri²

2020

Journalism and Media

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This study explores the news media Twitter messaging on the issue of Grexit, as an exemplary case of transmediatisation of problems in highly polarized contexts. Our analysis focuses on media tweets (in English, French, Italian, and Greek) using the Grexit hashtag between March and July 2015. There are three main questions on the potential reshaping of journalistic sourcing and framing on Twitter. The first focuses on the milieu of actors used by media outlets as sources in the #Grexit debate, the second on the types of news frames that dominated #Grexit media tweets, and the third on how sourcing and news frames interact to construct a space of power positions. The above processes took shape within a close information system, which included politicians, media elites, and economic experts that marginalized alternative voices and critical perspectives. These findings indicate that mainstream news media normalized Twitter to fit their traditional sourcing and framing norms and practices. More specifically, our findings indicate the following: first, traditional sources and powerful economic actors get easier access to online media reporting on Twitter; second, the negative and episodic media-driven frames take the lead in the frame-building process; and third, the non-elite political and socially-driven frames are marginalized in the framing building process. The Twitter affordances were essentially normalized by media to fit into their understandings of the negotiation process as a high-stakes international politics and economic game with predetermined winners and losers. It is also likely that this normalization reflects the normalization of Twitter by powerful political and economic elites aiming to offer journalists on Twitter easy and instant access to their narratives.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Section: Sourcing and Framing Journalistic Norms And Practices In Thementioning

confidence: 94%

Tweets That Matter: Reconsidering Journalistic Sourcing and Framing Processes in the Context of the #Grexit Debate

Kollias¹,

Kountouri²

2020

Journalism and Media

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“…This interpretation of transparency as disclosure transparency shows 'whether news producers are being open about how news is being produced' (Karlsson, 2010: 537); it is thus an interpretation of transparency that is easier to execute, as reflected in the research conducted in this area (Hedman, 2016;Lasorsa et al, 2012), and is closer to journalism practices. A diffused lack of attention for transparency and accountability emerges in various research (Coddington et al, 2014;Lawrence et al, 2014;Mourão, 2015;Nuernbergk, 2016) conducted at different times (electoral campaigns, conventions, political debates, everyday life) and in diverse contexts (the United States, Germany). It is important to see whether this will also be true within the Italian context.…”

Section: Transparencymentioning

confidence: 99%

Journalists at a crossroads: Are traditional norms and practices challenged by Twitter?

Bentivegna

Marchetti

2017

Journalism

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This article aims to identify the hybridization that journalists have created to reconcile the pressures arising from the affirmation of the culture of participation and sharing of social media with the traditional norms and practices that are the basis of the journalistic identity. This study analyses the behavior of 1202 Italian journalists on Twitter between 1 January and 29 February 2016, focusing on the interpretation of the transparency norm, the gatekeeping function, and audience engagement. These are norms and practices that are both old and new and that allow us to understand the adaptations journalists make in order to respond to the technological transformations that have affected existing models of journalism and the degree of professionalization of journalists themselves. Through the analysis of the 23,515 tweets published by journalists of different media outlets (newspapers, wire services, TV news, and only-online media), this study has allowed to empirically test the existence of a general adoption of Twitter by Italian journalists, characterized by a ‘hybrid normalization’, that is, a combination of old practices with new modalities with the dual aim of sharing the culture of social media and legitimizing the professional position of journalism.

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“…Zum überdurchschnittlichen Bildungsgrad und Sozialstatus der Nutzer dieses Netzwerks siehe u. a (Nuernbergk 2016;. Reichard und Borucki 2015; Wu et al 2011).…”

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