How journalists use social media in France and the United States: Analyzing technology use across journalistic fields
- 15 September 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in New Media & Society
- Vol. 20 (8), 2728-2744
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444817731566
Abstract
This article examines journalists’ use of social media in France and the United States. Through in-depth interviews, we show that shared practical sensibilities lead journalists in both countries to use social media to accomplish routine tasks (e.g. gather information, monitor sources, and develop story ideas). At the same time, we argue that the incorporation of social media into daily practice also creates opportunities for journalists to garner peer recognition and that these opportunities vary according to the distinctive national fields in which journalists are embedded. Where American journalism incentivizes individual journalists to orient social media use toward audiences, French journalism motivates news organizations to use social media for these purposes, while leaving individual journalists to focus primarily on engaging with their peers. We position these findings in relation to debates on the uses of technologies across national settings.This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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