Twitter's Impact on Sports Journalism Practice: Where a New Medium Meets and Old Art

This project aims to determine if and how the relatively new journalistic tool of Twitter is impacting journalistic decision-making and news production as a legitimate tool amongst sports writers. Using the methods of qualitative textual analysis and in-depth interviewing, this project analyzes the...

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Main Author:	Sears, Kyle
Format:	Others
Published:	ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University 2011
Subjects:	Journalism Decision-making Sports Twitter Textual analysis In-depth interviewing
Online Access:	http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/communication_theses/74 http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1073&context=communication_theses

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description	This project aims to determine if and how the relatively new journalistic tool of Twitter is impacting journalistic decision-making and news production as a legitimate tool amongst sports writers. Using the methods of qualitative textual analysis and in-depth interviewing, this project analyzes the words and tweets of nine journalists at prominent U.S. newspapers in an attempt to fill a void in research among the topics of journalistic decision-making, sports journalism, and Twitter and to answer questions that arise from the marriage of a certain type of journalism and a particular new media platform.
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title	Twitter's Impact on Sports Journalism Practice: Where a New Medium Meets and Old Art
title_short	Twitter's Impact on Sports Journalism Practice: Where a New Medium Meets and Old Art
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Twitter's Impact on Sports Journalism Practice: Where a New Medium Meets and Old Art

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