Networks and the Future of Foreign Affairs Reporting

Livingston, Steven; Asmolov, Gregory

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2010.503024

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“…With respect to media coverage, some NGOs have meticulously constructed an image of a reliable and credible news source organization ("authorized knowers", Fenton 2010:155) by means of sophisticated media strategies, including collaborations with scientists or politicians (Davis 2010;Livingston and Asmolov 2010;Waisbord 2011). Other NGOs produce their own research reports (Gaber and Willson 2005) or try to gain media attention by organizing "pseudo events" (Boorstin [1962(Boorstin [ ] 1992, by installing celebrities as NGO ambassadors (Cottle and Nolan 2007;Fenton 2010;Gaber and Willson 2005;Thrall et al 2008), or by providing "home connections" in disaster reporting by focusing on the work of national delegates (Cottle and Nolan 2007).…”

Section: International Ngos: the New(s) Kids On The Block?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Civil Society Organizations at the Gates? A Gatekeeping Study of News Making Efforts by NGOs and Government Institutions

Leuven

Joye

2013

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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This article applies a combination of an input-output content analysis and in-depth interviews with NGO communication professionals to determine whether the growing incorporation of press releases in editorial print content could be a new public forum through which international political actors, such as NGOs, could gain wider news access by serving as emerging key players in global civil society. The study indicates that Belgian news coverage of international aid issues is more often based on NGO press releases than government press releases. We also found that the agenda building capacities of NGOs and government institutions are enhanced as journalists present information subsidies as original journalistic work in most cases. Nonetheless, we must tone down prevailing one-sided conclusions, as most press releases are not just copy-pasted. Instead, most are supplemented with additional sources and information. The data, moreover, identify different journalistic roles of NGOs according to their objectives. While some issue press releases to raise short-term public awareness and donations for humanitarian crises (mobilization), others have developed into established expert news source organizations which provide background information and reliable eyewitness accounts to journalists.

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Section: International Ngos: the New(s) Kids On The Block?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Civil Society Organizations at the Gates? A Gatekeeping Study of News Making Efforts by NGOs and Government Institutions

Leuven

Joye

2013

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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“…This saw campaign groups organize themselves and form collective identities (Bennett and Segerberg 2012) through a logic of collective action (Olson 1965). More recently, the implementation and incorporation of new ICTs has led to technology-enabled networking (Livingston and Asmolov 2010) based on an ideology of connective action, coined by Bennett and Segerberg (2012), which has been created based on the more personalized sharing of content across social-and media-networks. In these networks, the introduction of digital media changes the dynamics of action (Bennett and Segerberg 2012).…”

Section: Social Media and Protestmentioning

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The Challenge of Social Media Incorporation: A Case Study of HACAN Clearskies

Rowe

Pitfield

2019

Politics & Policy

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Social media can pose challenges to campaign group strategy, especially for existing campaign groups who incorporate social media into their campaigns. This article uses social network analysis to explore how social media is used by the anti‐airport expansion group, HACAN Clearskies (HACAN Clearskies is an acronym for the Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise). Social media data were obtained using NodeXL and Twitonomy. As a result of questions raised in these findings, interviews with the social media coordinator of HACAN Clearskies were conducted. The results show the utilization of social media as an information dissemination platform and how a social media reluctant membership base prevents them from organizing mass protest through social media. The implications of these results are also discussed in relation to future social media practice. Related Articles Cormack, Lindsey. 2019. “Leveraging Peer‐to‐Peer Connections to Increase Voter Participation in Local Elections.” Politics & Policy 47 (2): 248‐266. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12297 Pompl, Solange, and Sergiu Gherghina. 2019. “Messages and Familiar Faces: Crowdfunding in the 2017 U.K. Electoral Campaign.” Politics & Policy 47. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12301

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“…25 Della Porta and Mosca 2005;Garrett 2006. 26 Drezner and Farrell 2008;Livingston and Asmolov 2010;Sell 2013. 27 Della Porta and Mosca 2005, 166. fatigue' and other forms of media bias that are the product of the economic and professional incentives that influence media coverage.…”

Section: Mechanisms: How Twitter Helps Rebels Gain International Supportmentioning

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A Manifesto, in 140 Characters or Fewer: Social Media as a Tool of Rebel Diplomacy

Jones¹,

Mattiacci²

2017

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Can rebel organizations in a civil conflict use social media to garner international support? This article argues that the use of social media is a unique form of public diplomacy through which rebels project a favorable image to gain that support. It analyzes the Libyan civil war, during which rebels invested considerable resources in diplomatic efforts to gain US support. The study entails collecting original data, and finds that rebel public diplomacy via Twitter increases co-operation with the rebels when their message (1) clarifies the type of regime they intend to create and (2) emphasizes the atrocities perpetrated by the government. Providing rebels with an important tool of image projection, social media can affect dynamics in an ever more connected international arena.

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Networks and the Future of Foreign Affairs Reporting

Cited by 37 publications

References 18 publications

Civil Society Organizations at the Gates? A Gatekeeping Study of News Making Efforts by NGOs and Government Institutions

Civil Society Organizations at the Gates? A Gatekeeping Study of News Making Efforts by NGOs and Government Institutions

The Challenge of Social Media Incorporation: A Case Study of HACAN Clearskies

A Manifesto, in 140 Characters or Fewer: Social Media as a Tool of Rebel Diplomacy

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