The next speaker at IAMCR 2019 is Edson Tandoc Jr., who begins by pointing out the continuing shift to online and social media as a critical source of news – in Singapore, some 47% of users now access news via Facebook, for instance. This also enables audiences as well as news organisations to engage in promotion, distribution, data collection, and engagement around the news.
Sharing links to the news on social media is now also a form of cultural currency, therefore. Compared to other forms of news transmission, sharing news links increases the speed and reach of the news …
The next speakers at IAMCR 2019 are Thomas Eckerl and Oliver Hahn, whose interest is in the role of Instagram in political communication in Germany. The adoption of such platforms for political communication is an example of growing mediatisation in society as such, and in politics in particular, as well as a sign of the continuing shift towards more participatory media forms and from top-down to bottom-up communication over the past two decades or so.
What is the role of Instagram in Germany in this context, then, especially in the context of the 2017 federal and state elections? How do …
The second paper in this IAMCR 2019 session is presented by Klaus Zilles, whose focus is on the distribution of disinformation on WhatsApp. The messaging platform has been embroiled in disinformation events in a number of countries in recent times, and has now begun to fund several research projects into the phenomenon, including the present study in Spain.
Spanish users are relatively active on the platform, spending more than one hour per day on average on WhatsApp. They are also increasingly using it to share the news, shifting away from more open platforms like Facebook and Twitter to …
For the last stage of my travels I’ve arrived at the IAMCR 2019 conference in Madrid, where I’m starting with a session of journalism. The first presenter is Yu-Peng Lin, whose focus is the role of Facebook in news production and distribution in Taiwan.
Online news reading is now very prevalent in Taiwan, and this has affected journalistic practices. Facebook is the leading social media platform there, and some 53% of users access the news through this platform. The embrace of the platform by news organisations has led especially to the rise of a new role of content curators, who …
