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Citizen Engagement and News Selection for Facebook Pages

Citizen Engagement and News Selection for Facebook Pages

Georgeta Drulă
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781522510819|ISBN10: 1522510818|EISBN13: 9781522510826
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1081-9.ch008
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Drulă, Georgeta. "Citizen Engagement and News Selection for Facebook Pages." Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media, edited by Marco Adria and Yuping Mao, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 122-138. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1081-9.ch008

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Drulă, G. (2017). Citizen Engagement and News Selection for Facebook Pages. In M. Adria & Y. Mao (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media (pp. 122-138). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1081-9.ch008

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Drulă, Georgeta. "Citizen Engagement and News Selection for Facebook Pages." In Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media, edited by Marco Adria and Yuping Mao, 122-138. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1081-9.ch008

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Abstract

As news flows in the social media environment, communication processes are facilitated by connecting processes between different categories of people. Thus, multimedia stories in social media journalism link not only pieces of information, but also people. Social media platforms are not only to communicate with audiences, but also to make connections between different stakeholders in the online production of news. This chapter investigates if this process of the selection of news for social media platforms is based on algorithmic criteria, or is only based on a human judgment? Methodologically, this chapter will analyse data from the Facebook pages of Romanian news sites in order to generate data which will be developed for a comparative analysis with online media in Poland. The questions raised by this study concern how media companies promote information on social media sites today.

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