Alecia Swasy

How Journalists Use Twitter (eBook, ePUB)

The Changing Landscape of U.S. Newsrooms

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How Journalists Use Twitter: The Changing Landscape of U.S. Newsrooms shows how leading reporters and editors at four major metropolitan newspapers are embracing Twitter as a key tool in their daily routines and how the social media platform influences coverage. This book builds on social media research by analyzing newsroom work through the lens of four different communications theories-diffusion of innovation, boundary, social capital and agenda-setting theories. This book will be of interest to scholars of communication, journalism, and new media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498532198
• Artikelnr.: 45987366

Autorenporträt

Alecia Swasy is the Donald W. Reynolds Chair in Business Journalism at Washington & Lee University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Using Theory to Understand Twitter
Chapter Two: Twitter Met With Great Skepticism
Chapter Three: The Importance of Family and Friends
Chapter Four: Does Twitter Make a Difference?
Chapter Five: Twitter Changes Boundaries in Newsrooms
Chapter Six: What's the Future for Twitter in Newsrooms?
Epilogue
References
About the Author