This paper is published in Volume-2, Issue-6, 2016
Area
New Media Technology, Political Communication and Social Media
Author
Subi Chaturvedi, Jaijit Bhattacharya
Org/Univ
IIT, Delhi, India
Keywords
Social media, SNS, political news, digital governance, participatory communication, social networking websites, instant communication, crowd-sourcing, hashtag, newsjacking, social commerce, Twitterati, Viral, micro-blogging, Newsfeeds
Citations
IEEE
Subi Chaturvedi, Jaijit Bhattacharya. Role of Twitter as a Digital News Engagement Resource for Political Awareness of Journalists in India, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.
APA
Subi Chaturvedi, Jaijit Bhattacharya (2016). Role of Twitter as a Digital News Engagement Resource for Political Awareness of Journalists in India. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 2(6) www.IJARIIT.com.
MLA
Subi Chaturvedi, Jaijit Bhattacharya. "Role of Twitter as a Digital News Engagement Resource for Political Awareness of Journalists in India." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 2.6 (2016). www.IJARIIT.com.
Subi Chaturvedi, Jaijit Bhattacharya. Role of Twitter as a Digital News Engagement Resource for Political Awareness of Journalists in India, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.
APA
Subi Chaturvedi, Jaijit Bhattacharya (2016). Role of Twitter as a Digital News Engagement Resource for Political Awareness of Journalists in India. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 2(6) www.IJARIIT.com.
MLA
Subi Chaturvedi, Jaijit Bhattacharya. "Role of Twitter as a Digital News Engagement Resource for Political Awareness of Journalists in India." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 2.6 (2016). www.IJARIIT.com.
Abstract
News on social media has outgrown television & radio news with instant update & feedback options; turning ‘passive audience’ into ‘active participants’ in the news making & news sharing process. Emergence of Twitter as a citizen engagement platform has been beneficial for journalists who use it for reading news & analyzing the latest Twitter trends as well as to acquire news worthy material for profitable news reporting. The paper foregrounds this dynamic function as well as critiques the role of Twitter as a participatory news resource for journalists’ engagement with respect to political news in the nation and across the world. Twitter has become the informative site with over 320 million Twitterati (PEW Report, 2015). The primary focus of this paper is to understand how Twitter has developed as the most used social networking site by the Journalists for accessing and sharing Political News and to explore the motivations of Journalists for using Twitter for the purpose of political news sharing and participation in news related discussions.
