Research Methods for Social Media Journalism

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-94063-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Journalism

This volume summarises novel and diverse research methods for both quantitative and qualitative social media journalism-based research.

Focusing in turn on the production, contents, and consumption of social media journalism, the authors explore a multitude of methods, from real-life student experiment, to content analysis, observations and literature reviews. Moving beyond the use of social media as journalistic tool for newsgathering and sourcing, and the legitimacy crisis of journalism in the social media age, this book instead shines a spotlight on the potential of social media for news presentation and distribution.

The unique methodological focus makes this book an important resource for early career and experienced scholars alike who want to study the flow of contemporary news content across various social media platforms.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hendrickx, Jonathan

Opgenhaffen, Michael

Opgenhaffen, Michaël

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Why We Edited This Volume and Why It Matters

Part 1: The Production of Social Media Journalism

1. “Let’s make a TikTok”: Unveiling the Role of Social Media Editors through Participatory Observational Research

2. Advancing Mixed Digital Methods: Digital Ethnography and Digital Methods in Contemporary Media Cultures

3. “I Just WhatsApped You the Details”: Three Recommendations for Observing Social Media Journalism in Practice

4. Studying Fact-checks on Social Media: Using a Real-Life Fact-Checking Platform to Explore the Feasibility and Practice of Direct Content Interventions

Part 2: The Contents of Social Media Journalism

5. Designing Content and Textual Analysis of Social Media Posts

6. TikTok Journalism: A Methodological Approach to Content Analysis in the Short-video Platform

7. Clustering Journalistic TikTok Videos: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach to Visual Content Analysis

8. Multimodality of Social Media Research in the Field of Journalism Studies: A Qualitative Perspective

Part 3: The Consumption of Social Media Journalism

9. Can I See What You Mean By News? Methodologies for Understanding Young People’s Changing News Identification and Consumption

10. Advancing Cross- and Multi-Platform Research: Understanding Digital News Flows via Computational Methods

11. Advancing Systematic Literature Reviews as a Method for Re-evaluating Core Concepts in Social Media Journalism

12. Studying Social Media and Journalism with Publicly Available Cross-national Secondary Data

Conclusion: Advancing Scholarship on Social Media Journalism

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Hendrickx is an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Michaël Opgenhaffen is an Associate professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium.