Conference proceeding
Which tweets 'deserve' to be included in news stories? Chronemics of tweet embedding
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 56TH ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES, pp.5983-5993
01 Jan 2023
Abstract
The use and selection of user-generated social media content, specifically tweets, as a news source has become an integral part of news production practice. Yet, the mapping and the extent of the nature of the practices in which news outlets integrate social media use is still lacking. This study focuses on the pressures of immediacy on the media ecosystems, i.e., as organizational practices of news outlets that make choices related to social media content integration. By analyzing a large corpora of news outlets that have embedded tweets, this study analyzes tweet embedding practices by specifically focusing on the concept of chronemics, conceptualized here as the time needed to embed tweets. Temporal constraints are particularly pressing for journalistic practices, given the continuous pressures of 24/7 news cycle. We ask two main questions: which types of outlets are quicker to embed tweets, and which types of users' tweets are more likely to be embedded quickly?
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- Title
- Which tweets 'deserve' to be included in news stories? Chronemics of tweet embedding
- Creators
- Munif Ishad Mujib - Drexel Univ, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USAAsta Zelenkauskaite - Drexel UniversityJake Ryland Williams - Drexel Univ, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
- Contributors
- T X Bui (Editor)
- Publication Details
- PROCEEDINGS OF THE 56TH ANNUAL HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES, pp.5983-5993
- Series
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- Publisher
- HICSS
- Number of pages
- 11
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science (Informatics); Communication
- Identifiers
- 991022037886304721