@inproceedings{02d682c204dd4411b1d1f37bedc79caa,
title = "The affordance effect: Gatekeeping and (non)reciprocal journalism on Twitter",
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.",
keywords = "Dialogic communication, Gatekeeping, Network analysis, Reciprocal journalism, Social media",
author = "Jacob Groshek and Edson Tandoc",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.; 7th International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2016 ; Conference date: 11-07-2016 Through 13-07-2016",
year = "2016",
month = jul,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1145/2930971.2930993",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450339384",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
editor = "Anatoliy Gruzd and Jenna Jacobson and Evelyn Ruppert and Philip Mai and Dhiraj Murthy",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media and Society, SMSociety 2016",
}