1st Edition
From Media Hype to Twitter Storm News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises and Public Opinion
Edited By Peter Vasterman
Copyright 2018
402 Pages
by
Routledge
402 Pages
by
Routledge
The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the public area. Sometimes it is indeed 'much ado about nothing' but in many cases these media storms... Read more
Preface, Introduction, Acknowledgments, I. Theory, concepts and methodology, II. Anatomy of self-reinforcing dynamics: case studies, III. Impact on issues, crises and public opinion, IV. Interactivity: the role of the social media, Information about the Authors, Index, List of figures and tables
Biography
Dr. Peter L.M. Vasterman (1951) is media sociologist and assistant professor emeritus Media and Journalism at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam.
