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Who Are More Active and Influential on Twitter?: An Investigation of the Ukraine's Conflict Episode
- Source :
- Journal of Global Information Management; April 2020, Vol. 28 Issue: 2 p225-246, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Twitter is an emerging form of news media with a wide spectrum of participants involving in news dissemination. Owing to their open and interactive nature, individuals, non-media, and non-commercial participants may play a greater role on this platform; thus, it is deemed to disrupt conventional media structures and introduce new ways of information flow. While this may be true in certain aspects in news dissemination such as allowing a broader range of participants, the authors' analysis of the involvement and influence of the different participant types, based on a large tweets dataset collected during the Ukraine's conflict event (2013-2014), portrays a different picture. Specifically, the results unveil that while non-commercial participants were the most “involved” in generating tweets about the news event, the retweets they attracted, a common measure of influence, were among the lowest. In contrast, mass media and sources related to journalists, professional associations and commercial organizations garnered the highest retweets.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10627375 and 15337995
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Global Information Management
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- ejs51908896
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4018/JGIM.2020040110