News 2.0

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Journalists, Audiences and News on Social Media

By Ahmed Al-Rawi

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News 2.0: Journalists, Audiences and News on Social Media explores the transformation of news in the digital age, focusing on the internet and social media as platforms for news production and consumption. Ahmed Al-Rawi examines the biases within news content and production, the personalised nature of social networking sites, and the creation of filter bubbles that shape users' news experiences. With an emphasis on non-Western media, the book investigates the impact of News 2.0 on democracy, politics, and institutions through topics like viral news, celebrity journalists, fake news discourse, and mobile news apps as ethnic mediascapes. Employing computational journalism methods, it provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary news practices across global media organisations.
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This book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students studying media, communication, and journalism, as well as academics, media practitioners, and journalists interested in the evolving landscape of news on social media. It also suits general readers keen on understanding how digital platforms shape news and its societal effects.

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Offers fresh insights and empirical evidence on the producers, consumers, and content of News 2.0

The second generation of news—News 2.0—made, distributed, and consumed on the internet, particularly social media, has forever changed the news business. News 2.0: Journalists, Audiences and News on Social Media examines the ways in which news production is sometimes biased and how social networking sites (SNS) have become highly personalized news platforms that reflect users’ preferences and worldviews. Drawing from empirical evidence, this book provides a critical and analytical assessment of recent developments, major debates, and contemporary research on news, social media, and news organizations worldwide.

Author Ahmed Al-Rawi highlights how, despite the proliferation of news on social media, consumers are often confined within filter “bubbles.” Emphasizing non-Western media outlets, the text explores the content, audiences, and producers of News 2.0, and addresses direct impacts on democracy, politics, and institutions. Topics include viral news on SNS, celebrity journalists and branding, “fake news” discourse, and the emergence of mobile news apps as ethnic mediascapes. Integrating computational journalism methods and cross-national comparative research, this unique volume:

Examines different aspects of news bias such as news content and production, emphasizing news values theory
Assesses how international media organizations including CNN, BBC, and RT address non-Western news audiences
Discusses concepts such as audience fragmentation on social media, viral news, networked flak, clickbait, and internet bots
Employs novel techniques in text mining such as topic modelling to provide a holistic overview of news selection

News 2.0: Journalists, Audiences and News on Social Media is an innovative and illuminating resource for undergraduate and graduate students of media, communication, and journalism studies as well as media and communication scholars, media practitioners, journalists, and general readers with interest in the subject.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119569664

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 June 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 295g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

AHMED AL-RAWI is an Assistant Professor of News, Social Media, and Public Communication at the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada, and Director of the Disinformation Project, empirically examining fake news discourses in Canada on social media and mainstream media. He is the author of several books and over fifty peer reviewed book chapters and articles published in journals including Information, Communication & Society, Online Information Review, Social Science Computer Review, and International Journal of Communication.