Name: Conference: Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism and Social Media
Start: 2018-10-17T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-10-17T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

About the event

10/17/2018 17:00

Conference Room 55.309, Edifici Tànger

Organized by Faculty/Department of Communication, UPF

Contact phone: 935422492

Categories:: Communication and audiovisual

Keywords:: AXEL BRUNS; BREAKING NEWS; GATEWATCHING; Journalism; Social Media

Conference: "Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism and Social Media"

 by Prof. Axel Bruns

  

 October, 17 th, 2018

 Conference Room 55.309

 Campus del Poblenou - Universitat Pompeu Fabra

  

 Social media users now engage almost instinctively in collective and collaborative gatewatching processes as they respond to major breaking news stories, as well as in their day-to-day sharing of interesting articles with their social media contacts. Meanwhile, existing media outlets are increasingly seeking to maximise the shareability of their stories via social media, and a number of new players (such as BuzzFeed) are fundamentally built around providing ‘viral’ content. This talk shows how this impacts on news industry practices and approaches. It reviews the practices of everyday users as they engage with the news, and highlights how enterprising journalists have come to connect and engage with such users. It traces the conflicted responses of journalists and news outlets from their early dismissals to gradual engagement with social media, and asks whether, as journalism is subsumed into social media, news outlets can remain distinctive enough to survive.

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