Digital Humanities and Journalism
National surveys on the use of social media in conducting professional journalism have been conducted for a number of countries, and the findings are insightful. For example, Cision & Canterbury Christ Church University’s Social Journalism Study 2011, that looked at ‘perceptions and use of social media among journalists in the UK’, found that 97% of […]
Social media has become a vital tool to the modern journalist. From Syria, to Turkey and Brazil international news stories are being broken by ordinary citizens on social media everyday and it’s not just serious news. The latest football transfer rumours or celebrity scandal is now more likely to break on twitter than by conventional […]
“Something is going on. I want to be precise. We don’t know what it is.” This is a quote from CNN anchor, Wolf Blitzer as he attempted to report on the manhunt for Boston Marathon bomber Dhokar Tsarnaev and was typical of the general chaos that surrounded the media coverage of both the bombings and […]
Social media and Twitter in particular has become an integral part of the working journalist’s day. As news organisations around the globe struggle to keep pace with changing technology, social media guidelines are often out-dated or missing altogether and it’s difficult for media professionals to figure out exactly what information should be shared and when. […]