Crises, Rumours and Reposts: Journalists’ Social Media Content Gathering and Verification Practices in Breaking News Situations

Social media (SoMe) platforms provide potentially important information for news journalists during everyday work and in crisis-related contexts. The aims of this study were (a) to map central journalistic challenges and emerging practices related to using SoMe for collecting and validating newswort...

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Main Author: Backholm, Klas (author)
Other Authors: Ausserhofer, Julian (author), Frey, Elsebeth (author), Larsen, Anna Grøndahl (author), Hornmoen, Harald (author), Högväg, Joachim (author), Reimerth, Gudrun (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
Subjects:
crisis; journalism; situational awareness; social media; usability; user-centred design; verification
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v5i2.878
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/878

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https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v5i2.878

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