2020
DOI: 10.25200/bjr.v16n3.2021.1277
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Twitter as a News Source in Data Journalism

Abstract: This paper discusses the use of Twitter as a news source, especially in data journalism. This practice uses public databases as sources for its investigations, but has now started to make use of less conventional sources, such as Twitter, which politicians now use as an official communication channel and thus avoid giving interviews to the press. In this study, we analyze news articles published over a period of a little less than two months by the data journalism team at Vortex Media. Our focus was on politic… Show more

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“…Social media platforms are a very important area for both news organisations and journalists. Similarly, it is noteworthy that X/Twitter has emerged as a significant platform for data journalists to obtain news information (Gehrke and Benetti 2020). Of note, X/Twitter has a critical importance for journalists' social capital accumulation (Barnidge et al 2020 andMaares et al 2021).…”
Section: The Forms Of Capital For Data Journalists: Cultural Social A...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Social media platforms are a very important area for both news organisations and journalists. Similarly, it is noteworthy that X/Twitter has emerged as a significant platform for data journalists to obtain news information (Gehrke and Benetti 2020). Of note, X/Twitter has a critical importance for journalists' social capital accumulation (Barnidge et al 2020 andMaares et al 2021).…”
Section: The Forms Of Capital For Data Journalists: Cultural Social A...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On top of that, there are elite sources in the social media that can lead to higher interest in high quality information (Gehrke & Benetti, 2020). These elite sources have a variety of source content that can be from local celebrities, athletes, politicians and at some time even journalists could become part of these online elitists.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Para Deuze (2005, p. 455), "um elemento permite e segue o outro, é claro: mais controle compartilhado sobre a coleta de notícias e a narração de histórias aumenta as oportunidades de vigilância e crítica processual". Autoras como Gehrke (2020Gehrke ( , 2021 e Rodrigues (2021) destacam exatamente como o jornalismo de dados observa e persegue a transparência enquanto prática essencial e relevante em um cenário cheio de desinformação e em que a atuação jornalística é colocada em xeque. Meier (2009) acaba fazendo uma distinção entre como a transparência pode ser evidenciada no jornalismo.…”
Section: Recursos De Transparênciaunclassified