I find that journalists use social media to understand & report public opinion. This is subject to manipulation as they use metrics (which can be manipulated) but also through "viral sloganeering" - journalists use individual posts as a new vox pop 2/x https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1464884919845458 …
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@loganex, we find that journalists’ Twitter use impacts their news judgement. Journalists who use Twitter often rated anonymous tweets *as newsworthy* as AP headlines. 3/xhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1464884918802975 …Show this thread -
News aggregation also plays a role in this.
@markcoddington book, Aggregating the News, shows how news content - especially dubious content - can be picked up & travel swiftly across aggregators, re-published a multitude of times across multiple sites 4/x https://www.amazon.com/Aggregating-News-Secondhand-Knowledge-Journalistic-ebook/dp/B07NSG6RH3 …Show this thread -
TDLR, I see potential for important reciprocal & collaborative work btwn scholars at the intersections of (dis)information/technology & journalism studies scholars, who must take seriously the normative implications of the practices they study, as laid bare in this report 5/fin
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Totally - and how we all must take it up. The inter- and multi-disciplinary approach is the best hope.
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