The affordance effect: Gatekeeping and (non)reciprocal journalism on Twitter

Jacob Groshek; Edson Tandoc

doi:10.1145/2930971.2930993

The affordance effect: Gatekeeping and (non)reciprocal journalism on Twitter

Jacob Groshek, Edson Tandoc

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Abstract

This study examines contemporary gatekeeping as it intersects with the evolving technological affordances of social media platforms and the ongoing negotiation of professionalized journalistic norms and routines in contentious politics. Beginning with a corpus of just over 4.2 million Tweets about the racially charged Ferguson, Missouri protests, a series of network analyses were applied to track shifts over time and to identify influential actors in this communicative space. These models informed further analyses that indicated legacy news organizations and affiliated journalists were least present and only marginally engaged in covering these events, and that other users on Twitter emerged as far more prominent gatekeepers. Methodological considerations and implications about the importance of dialogic and reciprocal activities for journalism are discussed in building on previous theorizing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2016
Editors	Anatoliy Gruzd, Jenna Jacobson, Evelyn Ruppert, Philip Mai, Dhiraj Murthy
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Print)	9781450339384
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2930971.2930993
State	Published - 11 Jul 2016
Event	7th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2016 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 11 Jul 2016 → 13 Jul 2016

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	7th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2016
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	11/07/16 → 13/07/16

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Keywords

Dialogic communication
Gatekeeping
Network analysis
Reciprocal journalism
Social media

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Groshek, J., & Tandoc, E. (2016). The affordance effect: Gatekeeping and (non)reciprocal journalism on Twitter. In A. Gruzd, J. Jacobson, E. Ruppert, P. Mai, & D. Murthy (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2016 Article a21 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2930971.2930993

Groshek, Jacob ; Tandoc, Edson. / The affordance effect : Gatekeeping and (non)reciprocal journalism on Twitter. Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2016. editor / Anatoliy Gruzd ; Jenna Jacobson ; Evelyn Ruppert ; Philip Mai ; Dhiraj Murthy. Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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Groshek, J & Tandoc, E 2016, The affordance effect: Gatekeeping and (non)reciprocal journalism on Twitter. in A Gruzd, J Jacobson, E Ruppert, P Mai & D Murthy (eds), Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2016., a21, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, 7th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2016, London, United Kingdom, 11/07/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2930971.2930993

The affordance effect: Gatekeeping and (non)reciprocal journalism on Twitter. / Groshek, Jacob; Tandoc, Edson.
Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2016. ed. / Anatoliy Gruzd; Jenna Jacobson; Evelyn Ruppert; Philip Mai; Dhiraj Murthy. Association for Computing Machinery, 2016. a21 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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Groshek J, Tandoc E. The affordance effect: Gatekeeping and (non)reciprocal journalism on Twitter. In Gruzd A, Jacobson J, Ruppert E, Mai P, Murthy D, editors, Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2016. Association for Computing Machinery. 2016. a21. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/2930971.2930993

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