Research Methods for Social Media Journalism

Introduction: Why We Edited This Volume and Why It Matters Part 1: The Production of Social Media Journalism 1. “Let’s make a TikTok”: Unveiling the Role of Social Media Editors through Participatory Observational Research 2. Advancing Mixed Digital Methods: Digital Ethnography and Digital Methods in Contemporary Media Cultures 3. “I Just WhatsApped You the Details”: Three Recommendations for Observing Social Media Journalism in Practice 4. Studying Fact-checks on Social Media: Using a Real-Life Fact-Checking Platform to Explore the Feasibility and Practice of Direct Content Interventions Part 2: The Contents of Social Media Journalism 5. Designing Content and Textual Analysis of Social Media Posts 6. TikTok Journalism: A Methodological Approach to Content Analysis in the Short-video Platform 7. Clustering Journalistic TikTok Videos: An Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach to Visual Content Analysis 8. Multimodality of Social Media Research in the Field of Journalism Studies: A Qualitative Perspective Part 3: The Consumption of Social Media Journalism 9. Can I See What You Mean By News? Methodologies for Understanding Young People’s Changing News Identification and Consumption 10. Advancing Cross- and Multi-Platform Research: Understanding Digital News Flows via Computational Methods 11. Advancing Systematic Literature Reviews as a Method for Re-evaluating Core Concepts in Social Media Journalism 12. Studying Social Media and Journalism with Publicly Available Cross-national Secondary Data Conclusion: Advancing Scholarship on Social Media Journalism Index