Infotainment on Social Media: How News Companies Combine Information and Entertainment in News Stories on Instagram and TikTok
Digital Journalism,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown, С. 1 - 22
Опубликована: Фев. 16, 2025
Язык: Английский
Tiktok as a Political Communication Medium: An Examination of the United Nations
İletişim Kuram ve Araştırma Dergisi,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
69, С. 136 - 156
Опубликована: Март 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.
Язык: Английский
News #foryou on TikTok: A Digital Methods-Based Study
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Апрель 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.
Язык: Английский
How social media affordances shape journalistic content production: A stimulus-based interview study on journalists’ perceptions
Journalism,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Апрель 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.
Язык: Английский
‘Normal news is boring’: How young adults encounter and experience news on Instagram and TikTok
New Media & Society,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Май 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.
Язык: Английский
The Tortured Journalists Department? Challenges and Characteristics of Quality Journalism on TikTok in Germany
Emerging Media,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Дек. 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.
Язык: Английский
Introduction: Understanding Social Media Journalism
Journalism Studies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
25(9), С. 919 - 930
Опубликована: Июнь 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.
Язык: Английский
Images of the Israel-Gaza War on Instagram: A Content Analysis of Western Broadcast News Posts
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Окт. 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.
Язык: Английский