Total Eclipse of the Social: What Journalism Can Learn from the Fundamentals of Facebook^*

* To access the original research article, please see the full reference and DOI here: Hess, Kristy, and Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. 2018. “Journalism and the ‘Social Sphere’: Reclaiming a Foundational Concept for Beyond Politics and the Public Sphere.” Journalism Studies 19 (4): 483–498. doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2017.1389296.

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DISCLOSURE STATEMENT

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Kristy Hess http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3027-7492

Robert E. Gutsche Jr http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6132-3493

Notes

* To access the original research article, please see the full reference and DOI here: Hess, Kristy, and Robert E. Gutsche, Jr. 2018. “Journalism and the ‘Social Sphere’: Reclaiming a Foundational Concept for Beyond Politics and the Public Sphere.” Journalism Studies 19 (4): 483–498. doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2017.1389296.

1 We acknowledge that there are many pages and posts that can be discounted as self-indulgent drivel and information rot on Facebook, but much is not.

2 Consider conversations among press associations in Australia and Canada, where improving social networking via Facebook is considered part of core business for local journalists.