全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP16167 Reading Twitter in the Newsroom: How Social Media Affects Traditional-Media Reporting of Conflicts

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP16167
	DP16167 Reading Twitter in the Newsroom: How Social Media Affects Traditional-Media Reporting of Conflicts
	Sophie Hatte; Etienne Madinier; Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
发表日期	2021-05-17
出版年	2021
语种	英语
摘要	Social media changes traditional-media news on conflicts. Online posts by citizen journalists—first-hand witnesses of conflict events—change the extent, tonality, and content of traditional-media reporting of conflicts. Using an exogenous and excludable variation in social-media posts in Israel and Palestine, driven by internet outages as a result of lightning strikes and technical failures, we show that, when social media in the conflict zone is not muted by internet outages, conflict news stories on US TV are more numerous and longer. Text analyses reveal that these stories have higher emotional intensity and focus more on the suffering of civilians and less on the role of US foreign policy or elections. The results suggest that social-media-driven democratization of the conflict news, i.e., the shift of focus from information provided by war gatekeepers to information from ordinary people, helps the narrative on the side of the conflict that has more civilian casualties.
主题	Development Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Social media Traditional media Conflicts Israeli-palestinian conflict Twitter
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp16167-0
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/545140
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sophie Hatte,Etienne Madinier,Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. DP16167 Reading Twitter in the Newsroom: How Social Media Affects Traditional-Media Reporting of Conflicts. 2021.