Insta-worthiness of News in New Media Journalism: How to Understand News Values on Instagram
The Internet and Web 2.0 have changed the communication and information systems. Social mediahas emerged as an alternative or a developed version of traditional media. In this respect, journalismis obliged to keep up with the new technology. Social media has become an effective platform forinformati...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Marmara University
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1321125 |
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| Summary: | The Internet and Web 2.0 have changed the communication and information systems. Social mediahas emerged as an alternative or a developed version of traditional media. In this respect, journalismis obliged to keep up with the new technology. Social media has become an effective platform forinformation and news sharing. Traditional understanding of news values and newsworthiness has beenreconstructed within this period. Concepts such as share, like, comment, etc. have become significantfor news values and newsworthiness in digital age. In this context, this study aims to find out hownews values have changed on social media by focusing on Instagram. To this end, three newspapers,which have highest circulations in Turkey were sampled over a one-month period. Content analysiswas selected as research technique. Based on research questions, three-step analysis was conducted.The findings were discussed in the conclusion. A new term – insta-worthiness – is suggested in thisstudy to clarify the main components of news values on Instagram. |
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| ISSN: | 2630-6220 |