From Media Hype to Twitter Storm

The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Vasterman, Peter (Editor), Vasterman, P., editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2018
Baltimore, Maryland : 2020
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009420102306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Theory, concepts, and methodology
  • 1. Media hypes, moral panics, and the ambiguous nature of facts : urban security as discursive formation
  • 2. News waves in a changing media landscape 1950-2014
  • 3. The dynamics of media attention to issues : towards standardizing measures, dimensions, and profiles
  • 4. Hype, argumentation, and scientific dissemination
  • II. Anatomy of self-reinforcing dynamics : case studies
  • 5. The mechanisms of media storms
  • 6. Much ado about nothing : five media hypes in a comparative perspective
  • 7. From media wave to media tsunami : the 'charter of values' debate in Quebec, 2012-2014
  • 8. How a small-scale panic turns into an unstoppable news wave about mass mugging on the beach
  • III. Impact on issues, crises, and public opinion
  • 9. Dynamics of media hype : interactivity of the media and the public
  • 10. Why and how media storms affect front-line workers
  • 11. Media hypes and public opinion
  • 12. News waves generating attentionscapes : opportunity or a waste of public time?
  • IV. Interactivity : the role of social media
  • 13. Modelling issue-attention dynamics in a hybrid media system
  • 14. You won't believe how co-dependent they are, or: Media hype and the interaction of news media, social media, and the user
  • 15. From racial hoaxes to media hypes : fake news' real consequences
  • 16. Reputational damage on Titter #hijack : factors, dynamics, and response strategies for crowdsourced campaigns.