COMS 4502 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Content Curation, The Digital Age, User-Generated Content
4 Oct 2016
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The increasingly active role of audiences in news creation is changing the traditional roles between media and journalists and their readers. New concepts of how the role of journalists in relation to an active audience is, will, or has to change have been researched. One concept suggested by scholars is gate-watching, which is considered to replace traditional gatekeeping journalistic roles. A new, innovative practice of news reporting is social media curation involving crafting digital narratives out of online and social media content. The characteristics of the process of social media curation are explored based on analysis of resulting stories. Core gate-watching attributes can be observed in news creation based on social media curation. Examples of extracted gate-watching attributes are the selection and filtering of relevant online and social media information sources and provisioning of direct access to original sources referenced in the stories.
