Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin's Sources on Twitter During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions
Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin's Sources on Twitter During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions
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DOI：
10.1111/jcc4.12074
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发表时间：
2014-04-01
影响因子：
7.2
通讯作者：
Zamith, Rodrigo
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作者：
Hermida, Alfred;Lewis, Seth C.;Zamith, Rodrigo
新闻来源的做法至关重要，因为它们决定了记者从谁那里获得信息以及他们获得什么信息，主要是从精英来源。这项研究评估了社交媒体平台是否通过对NPR的安迪·卡文在阿拉伯之春期间在Twitter上引用的消息来源进行定量内容分析来扩大参与新闻的行为者范围。结果表明，在平衡，非精英来源有更大的代表性的内容比精英来源。替代行为者占了近一半的信息。该研究指出，随着新的通信技术的出现，可以出现创新的生产形式，记者作为一个中心节点，被信任来验证和解释社会意识流上的新闻流。
News sourcing practices are critical as they shape from whom journalists get their information and what information they obtain, mostly from elite sources. This study evaluates whether social media platforms expand the range of actors involved in the news through a quantitative content analysis of the sources cited by NPR's Andy Carvin on Twitter during the Arab Spring. Results show that, on balance, nonelite sources had a greater representation in the content than elite sources. Alternative actors accounted for nearly half of the messages. The study points to the innovative forms of production that can emerge with new communication technologies, with the journalist as a central node trusted to authenticate and interpret news flows on social awareness streams.