Digital Transformations in Turkey by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2015-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Table 8.5. Type of Journalist Tweets

Tweet Type

Percentage

Original Post

44.1

Retweet

30.7

At Reply

25.2

Original posts by journalists on Twitter varied both in big story and in topic. While majority of the original posts (59.5 percent of them) were not associated with an ongoing big story, tweets in relation to Prison News emerged as the big story that journalists tweeted the most (12.8 percent of the original posts). In terms of topic yet again stories about press and media were at the top with 16.2 percent of the original post tweets about that topic. 12.9 percent of the original posts were tweets in regards to popular culture.

Retweeting on Twitter has the potential to introduce new voices and new ideas besides one’s own, and in addition it can expand the reporting on a given topic through the inclusion of other sources (Pew Journalism, 2012). There was considerable variation in retweeting across journalists. While three out of the twenty journalists chose to not retweet at all, there were two whose Twitter feed contained more than half of retweets.

In terms of retweeting there was a fair share of self-promotion going on in terms of publicizing one’s own story and also other stories from the journalist’s news organization. 15.6 percent of the retweets were stories from the journalists’ own news organization (Table 8.6). Only 8.1 percent of the retweets were from a news organization besides their own. More than three-quarters of the retweets came from other sources. A closer look at them reveals that there was a fair share of self-promotion going on in terms of publicizing one’s own story. Journalists were retweeting the reader/public tweets about themselves indicating that retweeting can be a form of curation and recommendation, but this time journalists were recommending themselves.

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