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

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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