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From Media Hype to Twitter Storm
News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises and Public Opinion
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eBook - PDF
From Media Hype to Twitter Storm
News Explosions and Their Impact on Issues, Crises and Public Opinion
About this book
This book offers the first comprehensive overview of the important phenomenon of explosive news waves, referring to the process in which key events trigger a chain of reactions and interactions, spreading social epidemics in the social media.
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Theory, concepts, and methodology
- 1. Media hypes, moral panics, and the ambiguous nature of facts
- 2. News waves in a changing media landscape 1950-2014
- 3. The dynamics of media attention to issues
- 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
- 7. From media wave to media tsunami
- 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
- 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
- 15. From racial hoaxes to media hypes
- 16. Reputational damage on Twitter #hijack
- List of figures and tables
- Index of names
- Index of subjects