News values on social media: News organizations’ Facebook use

This study examines the news selection practices followed by news organizations through investigating the news posted on social networking sites and, in particular, the Facebook pages of four foreign Arabic language TV stations: The Iranian Al-Alam TV, Russia Today, Deutsche Welle, and BBC. A total...

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Autor principal: Al-Rawi, Ahmed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5732590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29278253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884916636142
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spelling pubmed-57325902017-12-22 News values on social media: News organizations’ Facebook use Al-Rawi, Ahmed Journalism Articles This study examines the news selection practices followed by news organizations through investigating the news posted on social networking sites and, in particular, the Facebook pages of four foreign Arabic language TV stations: The Iranian Al-Alam TV, Russia Today, Deutsche Welle, and BBC. A total of 15,589 news stories are analyzed in order to examine the prominence of references to countries and political actors. The study reveals that social significance and proximity as well as the news organizations’ ideological agenda are the most important elements that dictate the news selection process. SAGE Publications 2016-03-09 2017-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5732590/ /pubmed/29278253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884916636142 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5732590/
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