Bouvier, Gwen (2019) How Journalists Source Trending Social Media Feeds. Journalism Studies, 20 (2). pp. 212-231. ISSN 1461-670X

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Abstract

Media scholars have called for more research to understand the consequences of news outlets becoming increasingly reliant on social media for sourcing stories, and how this is changing the nature of news and the role of the journalist. This also has high relevance for the Critical Discourse Analyst as regards processes of attributing the nature of ideology, where there is a shift away from stories derived from elite sources and official organizations. Using a sample of 26 news stories and a corpus of 40,000 tweets from a feed called #twowomentravel, which dealt with the journey of two women travelling from Ireland to the United Kingdom for an abortion, this paper uses Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate how the discourses from the feed are taken up by the journalists. Findings show an erosion of some of the basic former aspects of journalistic practice related to verification and provision of context as what is “trending” becomes a news definer. Yet those with the skills to understand how it is integrated into news production may use this to disseminate their own ideology.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Critical Discourse Analysis; news; news values; social media; sourcing; Twitter; verification;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > Media Studies
Item ID:	11870
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2017.1365618
Depositing User:	Gwen Bouvier
Date Deposited:	25 Nov 2019 15:43
Journal or Publication Title:	Journalism Studies
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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