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From media hype to Twitter storm : news explosions and their impact on issues, crises and public opinion /

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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Vasterman, P. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.