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

Bentivegna, Sara; Marchetti, Rita

doi:10.1177/1464884917716594

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“…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%

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: 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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“…By contrast, the minor role played by Twitter was not hypothesized. Several studies show the extent to which Twitter is used by Italian journalists (Bentivegna and Marchetti, 2018) and by Italian newspapers (Bentivegna, 2015). Some qualitative research states that journalists can use Twitter to flavor their stories (Marcel Broersma and Todd Graham, 2013).…”

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Google, Facebook and what else? Measuring the hybridity of Italian journalists by their use of sources

Delmastro¹,

Splendore

2020

European Journal of Communication

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The contemporary media systems present hybrid logics and features that imply an increasingly interdependence among actors, media and communication formats. The hybrid media system approach underlines that legacy news media and non-elite media actors construct flows of news through different media technologies and according to complex temporal structures. A media environment arises in which traditional distinctions between concepts like ‘online’ and ‘offline’, ‘producer’ and ‘audience’, ‘citizens’ and ‘journalists’ become blurred. The emphasis appears to be on change more than continuity, and on difference more than similarity. Although the hybrid media approach is appreciated by numerous contemporary media scholars, hybridity in media often remains an all-encompassing concept and few attempts have been made to measure it. This article assesses the level of hybridity by investigating journalists’ uses of sources. It considers mainly journalists’ use of sources by the medium for which they work (from newspapers to web or radio) and the kinds of news that they produce (hard or soft news, business/finance, tech/science). The assumption is, therefore, that, within a homogeneously hybridized media system, journalists use the same sources regardless of the medium for which they work and the topics with which they deal. This objective is pursued by analysing the data collected via a survey conducted by means of structured interviews with a sample of 1424 Italian journalists between October and November 2016. The findings show that the analytical distinction among platforms for which journalists work still matters in terms of sources. Except for the use of Facebook and Google, journalists have still very defined paths to collect sources according to the medium they work for. The article has implications also for the literature on journalists’ authority and expertise.

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“…These data are consistent with those obtained by other studies, which more explicitly integrate the use of new media tools. Bentivegna and Marchetti (2017) analyzed in Italy the extent to which traditional norms and practices of journalism (and among them gatekeeping) were challenged by the use of Twitter by journalists. The results revealed an understanding of the gatekeeper's role as the action of aggregating content produced by other journalists or by conventional media -rather than the openness to content produced by people outside the traditional news world.…”

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Gatekeeping Changes in the New Media Age: The Internet, Values and Practices of Journalism

Ferreira

2018

BJR

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This article re-evaluates the relevance of the concept of gatekeeping in the 21st century. Sustained in the literature on this subject, it argues that, in an age marked by new media and digital journalism, a classical understanding of the concept of gatekeeper will narrow the scope of the study of journalism and its relationship with the public. Taking into account the predominant trends and lines of research, and analyzing practices and events that, from a political point of view, marked the most recent years, this article seeks to reflect upon new directions with civic value for the practice of journalism and on a reconfigured concept of the gatekeeper in the western word. It concludes by showing the normalization of the new media devices and their appropriateness to conventional values and practices of journalism.Este artigo reavalia a relevância do conceito de gatekeeping no século XXI. Sustentado na literatura sobre esta matéria, argumenta que, numa era marcada pelos novos media e pelo jornalismo digital, um entendimento clássico do conceito de gatekeeper cerceará o âmbito do estudo do jornalismo e da sua relação com os públicos. Deste modo, tomando em consideração as tendências e as linhas de investigação predominantes, e analisando práticas e acontecimentos que, de um ponto de vista político, marcaram os anos mais recentes, o artigo procura equacionar novos sentidos, com valor cívico, para a ação do jornalismo e para uma noção reconfigurada do gatekeeper no mundo ocidental. Conclui mostrando a normalização e a adequação dos novos dipositivos mediáticos a valores e práticas convencionais do jornalismo.Este artículo re-evalúa la relevancia del concepto de "gatekeeping" en el siglo XXI. Sostenido en la literatura sobre este tema, argumenta que, en una época marcada por los nuevos medios y el periodismo digital, una comprensión clásica del concepto de gatekeeper reducirá el alcance del estudio del periodismo y su relación con el público. Teniendo en cuenta las tendencias y líneas de investigación predominantes, y el análisis de las prácticas y eventos que, desde un punto de vista político, marcaron los últimos años, este artículo busca reflexionar sobre nuevas direcciones con valor cívico para la práctica del periodismo y sobre un concepto reconfigurado del gatekeeper en el mundo occidental. Concluye mostrando la normalización de los nuevos dispositivos y su adecuación a los valores y prácticas convencionales del periodismo.

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

Cited by 52 publications

References 39 publications

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

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

Google, Facebook and what else? Measuring the hybridity of Italian journalists by their use of sources

Gatekeeping Changes in the New Media Age: The Internet, Values and Practices of Journalism

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