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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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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Table of Contents:
- 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.