Journalist’s Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don’t have to. Here’s their latest roundup, including research into fake news, audience analytics, populism, VR, and fact-checking.
Crowdsourcing tiny snippets of time, building the news around analytics, and how Twitter is weird during big news events: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
Benton, Joshua. "How is Twitter different during a big news event? Personal chatter goes down, attention shifts to elites." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 27 May. 2014. Web. 22 Mar. 2025.
APA
Benton, J. (2014, May. 27). How is Twitter different during a big news event? Personal chatter goes down, attention shifts to elites. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 22, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/how-is-twitter-different-during-a-big-news-event-personal-chatter-goes-down-attention-shifts-to-elites/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "How is Twitter different during a big news event? Personal chatter goes down, attention shifts to elites." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified May 27, 2014. Accessed March 22, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/how-is-twitter-different-during-a-big-news-event-personal-chatter-goes-down-attention-shifts-to-elites/.
Wikipedia
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