Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology

Humayun, Muhammad Fahad; Ferrucci, Patrick

doi:10.1080/21670811.2022.2086594

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“…The 2010 and 2014 surveys focused on the journalistic opportunities and risks of social media platforms. The rise of social media confronted newsrooms with the challenge of developing multi-channel strategies and diverse integrations of platforms (Humayun and Ferrucci, 2022; Neuberger et al, 2019). New forms of interaction with audiences fostered the “audience turn” in journalism research (Costera Meijer, 2020).…”

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How journalism adapted the Internet in Germany: Results of six newsroom surveys (1997–2014)

Neuberger

2024

Journalism

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Based on six newsroom surveys, this article analyzes the history of digital German journalism. The surveys cover a period of 17 years (1997–2014). Periodizing the history of digital journalism into three phases, this article considers the interplay between journalism and journalism research. The results show how journalistic digital media define their role in the relationships between old media and the Internet, digital media and other outlets, and digital media and their audiences. Furthermore, the results substantiate how digital editorial staff define their journalistic identities regarding tasks, rules, and skills. During the first period (surveys conducted in 1997 and 2000), the view from old mass media to the Internet dominated, also in scholarship where the mass media paradigm was extended to the Internet. The second period (surveys conducted in 2006 and 2007) was characterized by clarifying the relationships between journalism and newly emerged outlets. These studies focused on how participative formats (such as Wikipedia and blogs) and search engines could be used for journalistic purposes without compromising quality. These new outlets were not regarded then as much of a threat. This attitude did not change during the third period (surveys conducted in 2010 and 2014). In this phase, too, the studies focused on how editorial staff utilized the ever-increasing number of social media. The six surveys’ different research interests reveal that the reviewed journalism research primarily addressed changing demands in journalistic practice. Therefore, exogenous factors (“the sector”) had a greater impact than endogenous factors (the “scholarship”) on research interests.

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How journalism adapted the Internet in Germany: Results of six newsroom surveys (1997–2014)

Neuberger

2024

Journalism

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“…The final area of focus concerns news dissemination, and studies considering this form of engagement have mostly focused on how journalists share their own work on social media (Humayun and Ferrucci, 2022). When an audience member engages with a data journalism project, they may choose to disseminate that news via pasting links or sharing stories on social media (Weeks and Holbert, 2013).…”

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Audience engagement in data-driven journalism: Patterns in participatory practices across 34 countries

Martin,

Camaj,

Lanosga

2024

Journalism

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This study explores what motivates data journalists to engage with audiences and their strategies for incorporating audiences into their work. Building on scholarship on audience engagement and participatory journalism, we investigate how data journalists perceive the role of audience; the stage of the reporting process at which the audience is engaged; and how optimistically or sceptically data journalists view the audience’s capacity to contribute to the data journalism reporting process. Using a news media logics theoretical framework, we find data journalists are primarily motivated by a mixture of professional and audience logics The mixture of these logics aligns with their goals to establish institutional identity and legitimization in society, but increasingly data journalists also emphasise hopes for greater authentic participation from their audiences across the reporting process. Analysis of data gathered from in-depth interviews with data journalists from 34 countries provides a better and broader empirical context for explanation of data journalists’ goals for audience engagement, the tools they use to connect with audiences, and the degree to which those goals are met. Our findings contribute to a clearer explanation of audience engagement motivations and strategies in data journalism and the similarities that emerge across a broad geographic array of data journalism work. With a focus on crowdsourcing, data disclosure, interactivity, and news dissemination as forms of audience engagement, we synthesise a portrait of attitudes about audience engagement from the data journalist’s perspective and highlight global similarities.

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“…Under such a situation, the news could spread in social medias through the online social network like a snowball, thus the news could spread in a fast speed. Humayun and Ferrucci have studied the roles of social medias in journalism and they found that the journalists have taken advantage of social medias to promote their news articles [8]. They further explored three dimensions of social media use, including motivation (self vs. organization), prevalence (sporadic vs. prevalent), and disruption (disruptive vs. normalization).…”

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Research on the Impact of Social Networks on News Spread

Liang

2023

CHR

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The selected topic of this paper is to use the theories of social networks to explain how the news spread among people and how the digital technologies have changed the ways for the news to spread. This topic is selected when it is meaningful and valuable as the findings will be beneficial for studying interpersonal relations and psychological well-being, political participation and civic engagement This paper tries to conduct a preliminary research to understand this topic, and it finds out that social network could promote the dissemination of news when people are connected in a social network and they exchange messages and news. The results show that online social network will promote the spread of fake news, which will cause big negative impacts on the society. Therefore, the arguments relevant to the selected topic have been surrounding the negative and positive roles of social network for social learning and the spread of news. This paper also calls for actions from individuals to act as moral polices, and stop the spreading of fake news, and promote healthy social learning, when individuals are the gatekeepers for fake news.

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Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology

Cited by 21 publications

References 134 publications

How journalism adapted the Internet in Germany: Results of six newsroom surveys (1997–2014)

How journalism adapted the Internet in Germany: Results of six newsroom surveys (1997–2014)

Audience engagement in data-driven journalism: Patterns in participatory practices across 34 countries

Research on the Impact of Social Networks on News Spread

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