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Reconfiguring journalism research about Twitter, one tweet at a time

Pages 295-313 | Received 08 May 2013, Accepted 14 May 2013, Published online: 21 Jun 2013
 

Abstract

Scholarship about social media in general, and Twitter in particular, has increased dramatically in recent years as adoption by individuals and institutions has burgeoned; especially by journalists and media organisations. Much of the journalism research on Twitter has focused on the dynamics of professional news practices on the social media platform, with journalism considered as a cultural field of production. This paper considers Twitter as a networked communication space that results in a hybridity of old and new frames, values and approaches. It highlights research that points to the hybrid and innovative forms of news production on open, networked platforms, suggesting new paradigms of journalism at play that break with classic narrative structures and deviate from long-held and fiercely defended norms.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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