Social media, legacy media and gatekeeping: the protest paradigm in news of Ferguson and Charlottesville

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COMMUNICATION REVIEW Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI:10.1080/10714421.2019.1651153

Amani Ismail, G. Torosyan, M. Tully

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ABSTRACT This study investigates the site of intersection between legacy and social media, whereby it asks how local legacy media (St Louis Post-Dispatch and Richmond Times-Dispatch) invoked social media (Facebook and Twitter) discourse within their coverage of the Ferguson (2014) and Charlottesville (2017) events. It thus explores how gatekeeping is manifested and, consequently, how the protest paradigm emerged in a news landscape of proliferating social media. Thematic textual analysis indicates that coverage of Charlottesville and Ferguson clearly relied on indulging the social media sphere in important ways. Common themes of social media as multipurpose platforms, as interfacing with law and order, and as reconciling material and digital modes culminating in social activism were revealed. The study shows that the protest paradigm that has long characterized legacy media’s coverage of social protest is not as “pure” as it may once have been, since a social media component is helping define the contours and content of legacy media’s landscape.

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社交媒体、传统媒体和把关：弗格森和夏洛茨维尔新闻中的抗议范式

摘要本研究调查了传统媒体和社交媒体的交叉点，从而询问了当地传统媒体（圣路易斯邮报和里士满时报）在报道弗格森（2014）和夏洛茨维尔（2017）事件时是如何援引社交媒体（脸书和推特）话语的。因此，它探讨了把关是如何表现的，以及抗议范式是如何在社交媒体激增的新闻环境中出现的。专题文本分析表明，对夏洛茨维尔和弗格森的报道显然在重要方面依赖于对社交媒体领域的沉迷。揭示了社交媒体作为多用途平台、与法律和秩序对接以及调和物质和数字模式的共同主题，这些主题最终导致了社会激进主义。该研究表明，长期以来，传统媒体对社会抗议报道的抗议范式并不像以前那样“纯粹”，因为社交媒体的组成部分正在帮助定义传统媒体景观的轮廓和内容。

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