When Retweets Attack: Are Twitter Users Liable for Republishing the Defamatory Tweets of Others?

Measuring political polarization: Twitter shows the two sides of Venezuela

“…This period covers one month preceding his death, the announcement of the death, and the schedule for new elections. We use retweets as a proxy for influence [35][36][37][38][39][40][41], and build a weighted and directed network accounting for the adoption of ideas among Twitter users for each day. Whenever a user i retweets a message originally posted by user j, we assume that i is being influenced by j's ideas.…”

Networked Press Freedom and Social Media: Tracing Historical and Contemporary Forces in Press-Public Relations

“…Twitter (nd), Facebook (Summers, ), and the American Society of News Editors (Hohmann, ) all recommend that journalists follow their “best practices” to find sources, verify facts, publish stories, and promote themselves on social network sites. (Twitter recently announced a new a “Head of News and Journalism” tasked with making Twitter “indispensable to newsrooms and journalists.” (Bloomgarden‐Smoke, )) And it is unclear whether news organizations' policies regulating their staff's use of social media are even constitutional (Greenhouse, ) and whether courts distinguish between tweets and retweets when applying libel law to online expressions of reporters or others (Henderson, ; Stewart, ). That is, as news organizations encounter social network sites, they must decide not only whether to hire new staff or change their work practices – they must also decide which organizational influences and legal risks to accept as part of participating in these new media spaces.…”

“…How do they allow or encourage such sites to influence their reporting practices and how do they resist aspects of them that are seen to be incompatible with their norms and values? One place to see these tensions at work is in the official policies that news organizations have created to regulate their staffs' use of social media, a domain only beginning to be studied (Stewart, 2013b). Such policies arguably tell incomplete stories—formal policies are always interpreted, resisted, subverted, or followed within complex social contexts (Meyer & Rowan, )—but they can describe what Murdock () calls the “allocative” conditions under which work happens, serving as evidence of how news leaders understand their organizations' ideal relationships to platforms that “host the public.” (Braun & Gillespie, ).…”

Internet (Un)Immunity: Where Does China Stand?

“…13. Stewart (2013) 16. Information society services do not include TV or radio broadcasting; the use of electronic mail or equivalent individual communications, e.g.…”