“Everything Has Changed, and Nothing Has Changed in Journalism”: Revisiting Journalistic Sourcing Practices and Verification Techniques during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and Beyond

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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed in journalism": Revisiting journalistic sourcing practices and verification techniques during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and beyond

Social Movements Organized Built on Social Media Platforms in Brazil: A Study of How Traditional Media Embraced These Novel Forms of Connection and Community

“…We can argue that these three movements are at some level interconnected, due to the strong influence of the political destabilization in Brazil. On the other hand, echoing the findings in the Arab Spring movement (Schapals & Harb, 2021), the initial euphoria of these movements proved to be short-lived.…”

“…In the case of the Arab Spring protests, it was historically marked by the considerable amount of attention focused on the role of digital technologies in promoting collective activism to circumvent state-operated media channels, that is, the social media platforms served to give voice to these people that were otherwise not represented in the traditional media (Overbey et al, 2013). However, ten years after the uprising, the initial euphoria felt in the Arab world in the immediate aftermath of the uprising proved to be short-lived (Schapals & Harb, 2021).…”

On the becoming of an academic home for research into the intersection of mobile devices and news

“…In the 2000s there was much emphasis on how digital and mobile media facilitated for citizens to actively produce and share content, actively participate in journalism, and act as citizen journalists. The public contribute occasionally, with tips and pictures used by professional journalists (Westlund, 2013), but overall research finds that journalists have not broadened their online sourcing much over time (Schapals & Harb, 2021). Importantly, many news publishers have approached mobile media with serious and diverse efforts.…”

Influences of Media Routines on Fact-Checking:

“…Recent research shows that digital technologies have little impact on the sourcing routines in mainstream news organizations (Freedman et al, 2010). The old routines remained stable as the media environment evolved with the emergence of new technologies (Moon & Hadley, 2014;Schapals & Harb, 2020;Singer, 2005). Singer (2005) argued that digital technologies might have enhanced traditional practices.…”