Since an ever-increasing part of the population makes use social media in their day-to-day lives, data is being analysed many different disciplines. The analytics process involves four distinct steps, discovery, collection, preparation, and analysis. While there a great deal literature on challenges difficulties involving specific analysis methods, hardly exists research stages preparation. To address this gap, we conducted extended structured through which identified addressed solutions...

In a time of declining public trust in news, loss advertising revenue, and an increasingly participatory, self-expressive digital media culture, journalism is the process rethinking reinventing itself. this paper, authors explore how preparing itself for age participatory news: where (some of) news gathered, selected, edited communicated by professionals amateurs, producers consumers alike. Using materials from case studies emerging practices Netherlands, Germany, Australia United States,...

In this paper, the authors investigate how Twitter is used for political communication during election periods with a specific focus on characteristics and behavior of influential accounts. Our analysis focuses state parliament in Berlin (Germany) 18 September 2011. Tweets top-30 most retweeted users are analyzed respect to content-related features such as emotionality, appraisal parties or politicians, topics. Furthermore, test hypotheses regarding relationship between sentiment terms...

In a proclaimed age of ‘post-truth,’ scholars have raised concerns about the spread false information and questioning epistemic authorities. this paper, we develop an analytical model to capture digital transformation knowledge order. Drawing on insights from social epistemology, sociology history knowledge, media history, identify practices as basic elements We then analyze how are organized into overarching structure phases, contexts, roles, hierarchies. Digital tend destabilize...

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The use of social media reinforces the change in journalism from a single-channel activity to multichannel communications. News organizations and journalists must learn simultaneously operate several channels. Furthermore, is multi-functional applicable all phases news production distribution. Taken together, reaching higher level complexity. This study's main objective systematize multiple uses explore related newsroom strategies. To this end, we surveyed editors-in-chief German internet...

Populäre Krisendiagnosen zur Verbreitung von Falschinformationen, Erosion einer gemeinsamen Wissensbasis und Infragestellung epistemischer Autoritäten haben in den letzten Jahren nicht nur Sorgen um die Wissensordnung liberalen Demokratien ausgelöst, sondern auch zu erheblichen Forschungsaktivitäten der Kommunikationswissenschaft geführt. Allerdings steht eine Integration empirischen Befunde zahlreichen Einzelaspekten einen Theorierahmen noch aus. Der Zweck eines solchen Rahmens besteht...

This article discusses how the relationship between professional and participatory media could be described in a changing environment. It presents key findings of two-year research project which explored online journalism Germany. The draw multilayered picture latest developments concerning newsrooms their counterparts media. data consist primarily standardised interviews with editors-in-chief newsrooms. In most newsrooms, they produce supra-regional comprehensive news offer on websites each...

Based on six newsroom surveys, this article analyzes the history of digital German journalism. The surveys cover a period 17 years (1997–2014). Periodizing journalism into three phases, considers interplay between and research. results show how journalistic media define their role in relationships old Internet, other outlets, audiences. Furthermore, substantiate editorial staff identities regarding tasks, rules, skills. During first (surveys conducted 1997 2000), view from mass to Internet...

The research project "Online – the future of newspapers?" examined producers, their products and users German online newspapers. study on editorial boards was carried out in form a standardized mail survey all 81 daily newspapers with WWW presence May 1997 (return quote: 78%). A questionnaire for placed Web, where it could be accessed via links to homepage 27 papers (2524 respondents). In addition five individual websites were (semi-structured oral interviews heads boards, content analysis)....

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In journalism, we have observed a multitude of innovative forms in recent years: new presentation (multimedia story-telling, immersive journalism), ways involving the audience (participatory addressing issues and highlighting solutions (constructive automation (robot journalism) data journalism. Fascinated as all are by possibilities, key challenge contemporary journalism threatens to fade into background. Namely, question how ought think ahead about democratic functions under these...

The study presents the results of a standardized content analysis comparing use Twitter as an information source on websites five news media types (quality newspapers, tabloid newspaper, weekly magazines, broadcasters, and internet only). theoretical assumption behind is that adoption follows established practices particular type. All articles published online by ten German in period one month were collected (n = 21,823). A subset containing Twitter-related keywords 496) 375 tweets cited...