Valuing Twitter

Cleary, Johanna; Nashmi, Eisa Al; Bloom, Terry; North, Michael S.

doi:10.1080/21670811.2014.990255

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“…Similarly, Meyer and Tang (2015) analyzed tweets from 60 local news organizations, and only 7.4% of the tweets from local television stations and 11.6% from local newspapers were intended for interaction. Cleary, al Nashmi, Bloom, and North (2015) reported a similar finding from tweets from the CNN International Channel. These studies also generally conclude that traditional news companies are not engaged in promotion for either their websites, or the organizations' brands (Greer & Ferguson, 2011;Meyer & Tang, 2015).…”

Section: Social Media As a News Distribution Platformsupporting

confidence: 59%

News Organizations’ Selective Link Sharing as Gatekeeping: A Structural Topic Model Approach

Pak¹

2019

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To disseminate their stories efficiently via social media, news organizations make decisionsthat resemble traditional editorial decisions. However, the decisions for social media maydeviate from traditional ones because they are often made outside the newsroom and guidedby audience metrics. This study focuses on selective link sharing as quasi-gatekeeping onTwitter – conditioning a link sharing decision about news content. It illustrates how selectivelink sharing resembles and deviates from gatekeeping for the publication of news stories.Using a computational data collection method and a machine learning technique calledStructural Topic Model (STM), this study shows that selective link sharing generates adifferent topic distribution between news websites and Twitter and thus significantly revokesthe specialty of news organizations. This finding implies that emergent logic, which governsnews organizations’ decisions for social media can undermine the provision of diverse news,which relies on journalistic values and norms.

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Section: Social Media As a News Distribution Platformsupporting

confidence: 59%

News Organizations’ Selective Link Sharing as Gatekeeping: A Structural Topic Model Approach

Pak¹

2019

Preprint

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“…Artwick, 2013;Doval, 2014) or an enhanced understanding of topics such as journalists' news valuations (e.g. Chu, 2012;Cleary et al, 2015) 27 . Most of these examples draw on samples of journalists on Twitter.…”

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confidence: 99%

Making the most of Twitter: How technological affordances influence Swedish journalists’ self-branding

Hedman

2017

Journalism

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Journalists are among the most frequent users of Twitter, and Twitter has become an important platform for personal branding. Social media logic promotes not only a chase for virality and impressive metrics but also a mix of professional, personal, and private content, as well as sharing, interaction, and dialogue. Focusing one aspect of social media logic, the aim of this study is to analyze how the technological affordances of Twitter shape journalists’ self-branding in their account presentations and whether there are differences between groups of journalists. The study draws on a quantitative content analysis of Swedish journalists’ Twitter presentations and account information (N = 2543). The findings suggest that Swedish journalists on Twitter brand themselves as being more audience oriented, networking, and individualistic, projecting a mixed identity including both professional and personal features, and that social media logic influence journalists’ self-branding.

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“…An analysis of 500 journalists (primarily based in the US) in which for two weeks the first ten tweets posted by each journalist were examined, found that the journalists frequently displayed behaviour online that deviated from their traditional roles, such as offering opinions rather than appearing non-partisan, while also retweeting and promoting external links and content, and offering insights into working practices. Cleary et. al (2014) look at the use of Twitter by CNN and three news anchors/reporters to examine the values put forward by the organisation, finding that the journalists tweeted with different priorities than the organisation, who use it more often for promotional purposes.…”

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Are You Talking to Me?

Chorley¹,

Mottershead

2016

Journalism Practice

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Social Media has become a key medium for discussion and dissemination of news stories, fuelled by the low barrier to entry and the ease of interaction. News stories may be propagated through these networks either by official news organisation accounts, by individual journalists, or by members of the public, through link sharing, endorsing or commenting. This preliminary research aims to show how computational analysis of large scale datasets allows us to investigate the means by which news stories are spread through social media, and how the conversation around them is shaped by journalists and news organisations. Through the capture of more than 11 million Tweets relating to 2303 Twitter accounts connected to journalism and news organisations, we are able to analyse the conversation within and around journalism; examining who spreads information about news articles, and who interacts in the discussion around them. Capturing the tweets of news organisations and journalists and the replies and retweets of these micro-blogs allows us to build a rich picture of interaction around news media.

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Valuing Twitter

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

News Organizations’ Selective Link Sharing as Gatekeeping: A Structural Topic Model Approach

News Organizations’ Selective Link Sharing as Gatekeeping: A Structural Topic Model Approach

Making the most of Twitter: How technological affordances influence Swedish journalists’ self-branding

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