1st Edition

News Journalism and Twitter Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation

By Chrysi Dagoula Copyright 2023
140 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

140 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides a critical account of the impact of Twitter on journalism, exploring how the news media has adapted to and normalised the use of the platform in the industry. Offering a comprehensive understanding of Twitter uses for journalistic purposes, this book explores the platform’s use as a ‘global village’, as an ambient news environment, and as a global marketplace. Drawing on two... Read more

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. The two dominant views of Twitter and news journalism

1.1. Twitter as enabling and benefiting news journalism

1.2. Twitter as distorting news journalism

Chapter 2. Punctuated equilibrium: disruption, adaption and normalisation

2.1. The institution of news journalism and punctuated equilibrium

2.2. Disruption as a commonplace event

Chapter 3. What news journalists say about their use of Twitter

3.1. Qualitative approach: research interviews

3.2. Questionnaire themes concerning the evolutionary impact of Twitter on news journalism

3.3 Journalists’ evaluation of Twitter’s costs and benefits to news journalism

Chapter 4. From disruption to normalisation: journalists’ accounts on Twitter (20092021)

4.1. An account of the participants

4.2. The participants’ first Tweets: 2009–2011

4.3. The ‘presentation of self’: how the participants chose to display their biographical information

4.4. Account core features: account activity, use of hashtags and mentions and formatting tweets and textual choices

Chapter 5. An evaluation of the direct and indirect costs and benefits of Twitter to news journalism

References

Biography

Chrysi Dagoula is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands.