The agenda-building function of political tweets

Parmelee, John H.

doi:10.1177/1461444813487955

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“…This was especially the case in the Netherlands, where the newspapers sourced almost exclusively politicians' tweets. The fact that the tweets were usually verbatim incorporated in the news instead of paraphrased furthermore suggests that Twitter boosts the agenda building power of elite sources, whose messages are distributed unfiltered to a mass audience, as also Parmelee (2014) found in the United States. The same tendency was found for the British papers, though less outspoken as there was also room for vox pop tweets, especially in the popular papers.…”

Section: News Sourcing Reconsidered In the Network Society?mentioning

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‘To follow or not to follow?’: How Belgian health journalists use Twitter to monitor potential sources

Leuven

Deprez

2017

Journal of Applied Journalism &Amp; Media Studies

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Digital technology, the internet and mobile media are transforming the journalism and media landscape by influencing the news gathering and sourcing process. The empowering capacities of social media applications may constitute a key element for more balanced news access and "inclusive journalism". We will build on two contrasting views that dominate the social media sourcing debate. On the one hand, literature shows that journalists of legacy media make use of social media sources to diversify their sourcing network including bottom-up sources such as ordinary citizens. On the other hand, various authors conclude that journalists stick with their old sourcing routines and continue to privilege top-down elite sources such as experts and government officials. In order to contribute to this academic debate we want to clarify the Twitter practices of professional Belgian health journalists in terms of how they use the platform to monitor potential sources. Therefore, we examined the 1146 Twitter "followings" of six Belgian health journalists by means of digital methods and social network analysis. Results show that top-down actors are overrepresented in the "following" networks and that Twitter's "following" function is not used to reach out to bottom-up actors. In the overall network, we found that the health journalists mainly use Twitter as a "press club" (Rupar, 2015) to monitor media actors. If we zoom in specifically on the "following" network of the healthrelated actors, we found that media actors are still important, but experts become the most followed group. Our findings also underwrite the "power law" or "long tail" distribution of social network sites as very few actors take a central position in the "following" lists while the large majority of actors are not systematically monitored by the journalists.

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Section: News Sourcing Reconsidered In the Network Society?mentioning

confidence: 99%

‘To follow or not to follow?’: How Belgian health journalists use Twitter to monitor potential sources

Leuven

Deprez

2017

Journal of Applied Journalism &Amp; Media Studies

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“…Agenda-building research is connected to agenda-setting theory, which argues that "the public learns the relative importance of issues from the mass media" [7] . In other words, agenda building studies examine the degree to which journalists' stories and public opinion can be shaped by outside forces [8] .…”

Section: The Agenda-building Effect and Blue/green Pressmentioning

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Televised Debate and Press Agenda: Testing the Agenda-Building Effects in the Case of 2014 Taipei Mayor Election

Le¹,

Bi²

2017

dtem

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The study attempts to test the agenda-building effects of the televised debate in the case of Taipei Mayor Election in 2014. The results indicate the existence of agenda-building effects of the candidates' speech in the televised debate: The performance of independent candidate Ko had successfully affect the press agenda, while the KMT candidate Lien had failed to make the issues of policies he stressed salient, only issues of personalities emphasized by the press. It is also found that these effects are not always consistent with media's blue/green partisan orientation, which implies a potential shift of public opinion in Taiwan society. LITERATURE REVIEW AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS Televised Debates and Political CampaignThe televised debate is of importance for it had substantial and lasting influence on voting, and even the voters who did not watch the television might also be affected by the messages from media or friends [1] . Given this knowledge, it is not surprising that political parties try to control or at least influence the media agenda [2] . However, the study presented evidence that not all of issues being emphasized by the Republican and Democratic candidates and parties were being emphasized by the newspapers and television networks studied [3] . And the issues which the candidates stressed most prominently were not the same as those displayed most prominently in the news [4] . The televised debate held for 2014 Taipei Mayor Election was influential which achieved the highest audience rating in history of Taiwan televised debates, nearly 2.3 million audience watched the debate [5] . Drawing from the previous studies above, we propose the research question as follow:RQ: To what extent the Press coverage followed the issue agenda built by Ko and Lien in the televised debate respectively?As previous studies found out, media are inclined to coverage candidates' personalities rather than proposed policies in televised debates [12]. The study of

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“…Bode et al, 2016), and the interplay between social and traditional media during election campaigns (e.g. Parmelee, 2014;Conway, Kensky, & Wan, 2015;Lin, 2016). Studies examining the relationships between social and traditional media in elections mostly focus on intermedia agenda-setting, and findings seem to suggest that there is a 'symbiotic relationship' in place (Conway et al, 2015, p. 363; see also Parmelee, 2014).…”

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“…Parmelee, 2014;Conway, Kensky, & Wan, 2015;Lin, 2016). Studies examining the relationships between social and traditional media in elections mostly focus on intermedia agenda-setting, and findings seem to suggest that there is a 'symbiotic relationship' in place (Conway et al, 2015, p. 363; see also Parmelee, 2014). However, there also seems to be a disparity between how candidates frame impressions on their social media accounts, and how the media reports these (Lin, 2016), although this avenue of research has not yet received adequate scholarly attention.…”

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Political Impression Management Through Direct and Mediated Communication: The 2014/2015 Croatian Presidential Elections

Šimunjak¹,

Ćorić²,

Brečić³

2017

Drustvena istrazivanja

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This paper examines similarities and differences between direct and mediated political candidates' communication during electoral campaigns, and answers the question: How, if at all, do candidates' techniques of impression management differ in their direct and mediated communication. The study is based on content analysis of major daily newspapers, and statements published by candidates in the 2014/2015 Croatian presidential elections on their official Facebook and Twitter accounts. The results show that candidates did not use social media to portray their personal side, humanise their image and create their image of a leader through references to their skills and qualities. Rather, this research shows that in spite of the growing importance of social media, and the willingness and skill of the politicians in employing social media, traditional media, such as newspapers, remain indispensable for providing information about political issues to citizens in this new democracy during presidential elections.

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The agenda-building function of political tweets

Cited by 235 publications

References 33 publications

‘To follow or not to follow?’: How Belgian health journalists use Twitter to monitor potential sources

‘To follow or not to follow?’: How Belgian health journalists use Twitter to monitor potential sources

Televised Debate and Press Agenda: Testing the Agenda-Building Effects in the Case of 2014 Taipei Mayor Election

Political Impression Management Through Direct and Mediated Communication: The 2014/2015 Croatian Presidential Elections

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