Internet Uses, Socialmedia, Citizen Journalism
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The Syrian revolution has brought about the creation of a pop-up news ecology, an entirely new, oppositional news system fueled by citizen activists’ use of social media to report on the conflict. Drawing on Castell’s Network Society,... more
In the world of technology-mediated communication (TMC), the involvement of audiences with media texts takes very diverse forms. The participation is shaped by multiple factors ranging from the genre of the media text (e.g., the news... more
Der Autor gehörte bis Mitte 2020 zu den Verantwortlichen für Social Media in der Bundeswehr. In die Kritik geriet er, als das NDR-Magazin Panorama im Juli 2020 über seine Social-Media-Aktivitäten eine anscheinende Nähe zu rechtsradikalen... more
Collaboration among mainstream media and citizen journalism is not new, neither is the tension that have existed among them. What is interesting is the hydra-headed nature of their relationship. After over two decades of coexistence and... more
Over the past decade, particularly with the introduction of Web 2.0 technologies, we have seen an increase in the popularity of social media such as forums, weblogs and wikis and social media applications and services such as Facebook and... more
Citizen participation is intrinsic to journalism, but the technologies that have emerged in the last two decades promoted unprecedented transformations that have changed the way the public and the newspaper interact. The present study... more
This study is a textual analysis of select social media hate speech messages against clergymen in Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to examine the degree of hate speech messages against select clergymen in Nigeria, the frames of... more
The improvement of snapshot communication and the access to digital media have contributed to the citizen´s critical training who can also join in the creating, developing and making processes of nowadays journalism. However, it’s up to... more