Social media references in Egyptian newspapers: The use of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and WhatsApp in El-Ahram, El-Masry El-Youm and El-Wafd newspapers

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صحافة واعلام

الملخص

The world is now witnessing successive developments in both technology and democracy in the field of digital media. The situation has now changed, with the audiences no longer receivers but rather effective and active participants in the process of news production. The Internet provides interactive features through social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp. Moreover, traditional media now depend on social media for acquiring news and information, in spite of the fact that these platforms may not always be subject to professional and institutional control which the traditional media require in order to invoke professional standards and well-known sources.Due to the fact that mainstream media are progressively using social media as sources of news, previous research has focused on the use of social media in certain situations only, such as, for example, coverage of breaking news especially during major events, elections, or crises. However, little attention is paid to the journalists’ daily routine of monitoring of social media platforms in Egypt. This study aims at examining the selection and use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp by journalists as news sources in daily newspapers in Egypt. It employs both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the above-mentioned social media platforms as news sources in daily news coverage. The study first integrates intensive interviews with twenty four Egyptian journalists from the three newspapers under study to give an in-depth examination of the use and selection of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp as references for their daily news coverage. Interviews examine the impact of social media on the news content that journalists use, investigate whether social media would change the professional traditional newsgathering and sourcing habits in journalism, seek to learn about the extent to which social media would alter these professional ways, and, as well, investigate whether these new practices would be obvious in the traditional Egyptian newspapers. The study further provides a ‘quantitative overview ‘of all the articles that were published between November 2013 and October 2016 in El-Ahram, El-Masry El-Youm and El-Wafd newspapers. Then a content analysis is conducted on a sample of articles selected using a non-probability purposive sampling technique that clearly mentions any of the four social media platforms as news sources. The content analysis examines a sample of 432 issues from printed newspapers which appeared between November 2013 and October 2016. It is found that out of 21,332 news articles, 4,707 news articles are only found mentioning any of the four social media platforms under study as sources for news coverage by journalists. Results show that using social media became a daily routine in the three Egyptian newspapers. Thus, findings support the claim that social media platforms have become an integral part of journalists’ daily news coverage; however, this does not imply that social media has dominated the content of the newspapers studied. Nevertheless, results show that the number of news articles referring to social media as news sources is low (approximately 22.06% out of the total number of the news articles analyzed).

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نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

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ألقاب المؤلفين

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

Social media references in Egyptian newspapers: The use of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and WhatsApp in El-Ahram, El-Masry El-Youm and El-Wafd newspapers

المحتوى والصفحات

عدد الصفحات

0

إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

Hussein Amin

الإعداد

Nashwa Mohamed Mamdouh Mostafa El-Degheidy

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية