Journalism and Social Media: Redistribution of Power?

Marcel Broersma and Scott A. Eldridge
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Marcel Broersma: Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Scott A. Eldridge: Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Media and Communication, 2019, vol. 7, issue 1, 193-197

Abstract: This thematic issue sets out to explore the power relationships between journalism and social media. The articles here examine these relationships as intersections between journalistic actors and their audiences, and between news media, their content, and the functions of social media platforms. As the articles in this issue show, the emergence of social media and their adoption by news media and other social actors have brought about a series of changes which have had an impact on how news is produced, how information is shared, how audiences consume news, and how publics are formed. In this introduction, we highlight the work in this issue in order to reflect on the emergence of social media as one which has been accompanied by shifts in power in journalism and its ancillary fields, shifts which have in turn surfaced new questions for scholars to confront.

Keywords: journalism; news ecology; normalization; power; social media (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.17645/mac.v7i1.2048

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