Images of the Israel-Gaza War on Instagram: A Content Analysis of Western Broadcast News Posts DOI
Mohamad Hamas Elmasry

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 30, 2024

This quantitative content analysis examined how popular Western broadcast news channels—BBC News, CNN, Fox Sky and MSNBC—used Instagram (IG) to cover the initial phase of fifth Israel–Gaza war 21 st century, which began on October 7, 2023. The research was undergirded by framing theory victim/defensive mode reporting model. Overall, findings suggest that IG decidedly pro-Israel. Studied outlets consistently favored Israeli pro-Israeli sources over Palestinian pro-Palestinian sources; highlighted victims while neglecting victims; framed violence as self-defense aggression.

Language: Английский

Infotainment on Social Media: How News Companies Combine Information and Entertainment in News Stories on Instagram and TikTok DOI Creative Commons
Dominique S. Wirz,

Florin Zai

Digital Journalism, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 1 - 22

Published: Feb. 16, 2025

Language: Английский

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Tiktok as a Political Communication Medium: An Examination of the United Nations DOI Creative Commons
Zindan Çakıcı

İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 69, P. 136 - 156

Published: March 18, 2025

In contemporary society, TikTok has emerged as a preeminent platform increasingly used by political entities to facilitate the advancement of communication strategies and currently boasts over 1.1 billion active users. The United Nations (UN), established in 1945 quintessential international institution, inaugurated an official account 2020 response exigencies imposed Covid-19 pandemic. An examination extant literature reveals marked paucity scholarly inquiries critically evaluating UN's social media strategies, particularly notable dearth analyses specifically addressing strategic engagements on TikTok. This study aspires augment existing corpus concerning TikTok's role global scrutinizing this platform. research entails content analysis 287 posts disseminated via from March 31, 2020, October 26, 2024. findings elucidate that UN adeptly constructed digital strategy characterized extensive integration elements, including subtitles, captions, music, hashtag within its posts. Moreover, indicates endeavors transmit salient messages audience through diverse array audiovisual formats affective tonalities. However, it is also observed inadequately addresses marginalized populations TikTok, manifesting disparities representational equity for specific demographic cohorts exhibiting insufficient adherence principle multilingualism. Finally, was found have clear bias regarding issues, stance evident framing content.

Language: Английский

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News #foryou on TikTok: A Digital Methods-Based Study DOI
Jonathan Hendrickx

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 4, 2025

TikTok is rapidly establishing itself as an important platform for contemporary digital journalism but explorations on its transnational journalistic usage thus far remain limited in size and scope. Hence, this explorative study adopts a methods approach to collect assess 26,473 videos posted by 91 European news outlets between 2019 2022. Rooted conceptually affordance hybridity theory methodologically methods, the theorizes production trends drawing proposed typology of visual, hashtags, auditory affordances. News studied adhere visual hashtag affordances, much less so ones.

Language: Английский

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How social media affordances shape journalistic content production: A stimulus-based interview study on journalists’ perceptions DOI
Luise Anter

Journalism, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 23, 2025

Social media platforms are increasingly central for delivering journalistic content. While evidence suggests that social led to adaptations of production routines, comparatively little is known about the specific platform characteristics shape coordinating, selecting, and editing Adopting an affordance lens, this study seeks tackle gap investigates how journalists perceive properties their influence on contenft production. To answer question, relies stimulus-based qualitative interviews with 34 from Germany, focusing primarily TikTok, Instagram, Facebook. By combining walkthroughs reconstruction interviews, analysis provides fine-grained insights into a set affordances, ranging perceived degree algorithmic curation over (user-induced) spatiotemporal boundaries platforms’ communicative forms, shapes different stages content The proposed affordances both universal variable, forming typology facilitates systematic comparisons across current future platforms.

Language: Английский

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‘Normal news is boring’: How young adults encounter and experience news on Instagram and TikTok DOI Creative Commons
Jonathan Hendrickx

New Media & Society, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: May 29, 2024

Instagram and TikTok constitute the fastest rising social media apps for news consumption. However, very little remains known on how young people encounter experience content these platforms. Drawing 25 in-depth interviews with adult Belgians, including operationalising walkthrough method, this qualitative research article fills existing gap in scholarship. I contextualise but also nuance younger users are accustomed to relying third-party as primary location rather than outlets’ own offline online The study results shine light intriguing perception differences adults’ varying expectations of TikTok, based which ramifications recommendations discussed. Conceptually, propose adopting terms encountering experiencing being exposed or trusting it, order highlight acknowledged (radical) audience turn journalism studies practice.

Language: Английский

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The Tortured Journalists Department? Challenges and Characteristics of Quality Journalism on TikTok in Germany DOI Creative Commons
Matthias Degen,

Max Olgemöller,

Christian Zabel

et al.

Emerging Media, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 8, 2024

Our study investigates how German journalists produce quality journalism on TikTok based 22 semistructured interviews. Specifically, we explore whether adhere to established journalistic norms and values, using Lacy & Rosenstiel's framework as a theoretical foundation. Given the prominent role of public service media their legal mandate contribute opinion formation, Germany constitutes an interesting case. Findings suggest that rely mixture traditional standards audience-related news values TikTok. Moreover, they tailor content unique platform environment. This entails adoption TikTok-specific storytelling with crisp openers, simplified narrating styles, appealing audiovisuals. Editorial management remains crucial, exhibiting more sophisticated approval production processes than private journalists. Overall, strike balance between upholding integrity adapting TikTok's distinctive dynamics.

Language: Английский

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Introduction: Understanding Social Media Journalism DOI Creative Commons
Jonathan Hendrickx, Michaël Opgenhaffen

Journalism Studies, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 25(9), P. 919 - 930

Published: June 18, 2024

Now over a decade since the influential paper Understanding Social Media Logic by van Dijck and Poell was published, total number, sheer variety penetration of social media apps in everyday consumption production behaviour has exploded. This poses risks opportunities for legacy corporations as well scholars attempting to make sense various affordances each individual platform offers facilitate production, dissemination novel types news content. Drawing on insights from articles published this special issue characteristics, constraints contingencies journalism, we seek advance scholarship challenging expanding existing frameworks. We synthesise current state research propose agenda peers.

Language: Английский

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Images of the Israel-Gaza War on Instagram: A Content Analysis of Western Broadcast News Posts DOI
Mohamad Hamas Elmasry

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 30, 2024

This quantitative content analysis examined how popular Western broadcast news channels—BBC News, CNN, Fox Sky and MSNBC—used Instagram (IG) to cover the initial phase of fifth Israel–Gaza war 21 st century, which began on October 7, 2023. The research was undergirded by framing theory victim/defensive mode reporting model. Overall, findings suggest that IG decidedly pro-Israel. Studied outlets consistently favored Israeli pro-Israeli sources over Palestinian pro-Palestinian sources; highlighted victims while neglecting victims; framed violence as self-defense aggression.

Language: Английский

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