From Media Hype to Twitter Storm

From Media Hype to Twitter Storm
Author: Peter Vasterman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-02-26
Genre: Journalism
ISBN: 9789462982178

This anthology offers the first comprehensive overview of media hype, a phenomenon often dismissed as ephemeral and unimportant. Despite that reputation, media storms actually do play an important role in political issues, scandals, and crises, sometimes creating an important shift in public opinion over the course of only a few hours. This book provides an overview of theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues related to media hype through close explorations of case studies from around the world.

From Media Hype to Twitter Storm

From Media Hype to Twitter Storm
Author: Peter Vasterman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2018
Genre: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN: 9789048532100

The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the public area. Sometimes it is indeed 'much ado about nothing' but in many cases these media storms have played an important role in political issues, scandals and crises. Twitter storms sometimes ruin reputations within hours. Although different concepts are used, such as media hypes, news waves, media storms, information cascades or risk amplification, all the studies in this book refer to the same process in which key events trigger a chain of reactions and interactions, building up huge news waves in the media or rapidly spreading social epidemics in the social media.

Social Media Storms

Social Media Storms
Author: Pernille Rydén
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2021-08-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000432769

This fascinating new book explores the benefits and dynamics of social media storms and identifies the possible opportunities that they present for further engagement with customers. It provides actionable managerial advice on planning for, measuring, and innovatively navigating social media storms. Based on a sound theoretical background and illustrated by vivid real-life examples and case studies throughout every chapter, this book combines thorough explanations of the elements of business decision-making, market interaction, consumer psychology, branding, and business communication. In comparison to the existing literature, the book departs from the classical, but insufficient crisis communication management approaches to suggest novel frameworks and tools for empowering businesses, consumers, and broader societies in the digital age. Social Media Storms: Empowering Leadership Beyond Crisis Management provides advanced undergraduate and postgraduate digital marketing, marketing communications, strategy, and crisis management students with a comprehensive understanding of the social media storm phenomenon and helps marketing and communications professionals to leverage the opportunities that social media storms are bringing.

Murder Falcon

Murder Falcon
Author: Daniel Warren Johnson
Publisher: Image Comics
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2019-07-10
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1534315314

The world is under attack by hideous monsters, and Jake's life is falling apart until he meets Murder Falcon. He was sent from The Heavy to destroy all evil, but he can't do it without Jake shredding up a storm. Now, with every chord Jake plays on his guitar, the power of metal fuels Murder Falcon into all-out kung fu fury on those that seek to conquer Earth! From DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON creator of the Eisner-nominated EXTREMITY comes MURDER FALCON! GET READY TO SHRED! Collects MURDER FALCON #1-8

Roar

Roar
Author: Cora Carmack
Publisher: Tor Teen
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2017-06-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0765386313

Raised to rule, despite not having the abilities her ancestors did, Aurora becomes betrothed to a prince who possesses the magic needed to keep the kingdom safe.

The Way of Kings

The Way of Kings
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 1013
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765376679

A new epic fantasy series from the New York Times bestselling author chosen to complete Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time® Series

The Digital Academic

The Digital Academic
Author: Deborah Lupton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017-08-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315473593

Academic work, like many other professional occupations, has increasingly become digitised. This book brings together leading scholars who examine the impacts, possibilities, politics and drawbacks of working in the contemporary university, using digital technologies. Contributors take a critical perspective in identifying the implications of digitisation for the future of higher education, academic publishing protocols and platforms and academic employment conditions, the ways in which academics engage in their everyday work and as public scholars and relationships with students and other academics. The book includes accounts of using digital media and technologies as part of academic practice across teaching, research administration and scholarship endeavours, as well as theoretical perspectives. The contributors span the spectrum of early to established career academics and are based in education, research administration, sociology, digital humanities, media and communication.

Becoming Hitler

Becoming Hitler
Author: Thomas Weber
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0199664625

In Becoming Hitler, Thomas Weber continues from where he left off in his previous book, Hitler's First War, stripping away the layers of myth and fabrication in Hitler's own tale to tell the real story of Hitler's politicization and radicalization in post-First World War Munich. It is the gripping account of how an awkward and unemployed loner with virtually no recognizable leadership qualities and fluctuating political ideas turned into thecharismatic, self-assured, virulently anti-Semitic leader with an all-or-nothing approach to politics with whom the world was soon to become tragically familiar. As Weber clearly shows, far from the picture of afully-formed political leader which Hitler wanted to portray in Mein Kampf, his ideas and priorities were still very uncertain and largely undefined in early 1919 - and they continued to shift until 1923.

The SAGE Handbook of Digital Journalism

The SAGE Handbook of Digital Journalism
Author: Tamara Witschge
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 936
Release: 2016-05-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1473955068

The production and consumption of news in the digital era is blurring the boundaries between professionals, citizens and activists. Actors producing information are multiplying, but still media companies hold central position. Journalism research faces important challenges to capture, examine, and understand the current news environment. The SAGE Handbook of Digital Journalism starts from the pressing need for a thorough and bold debate to redefine the assumptions of research in the changing field of journalism. The 38 chapters, written by a team of global experts, are organised into four key areas: Section A: Changing Contexts Section B: News Practices in the Digital Era Section C: Conceptualizations of Journalism Section D: Research Strategies By addressing both institutional and non-institutional news production and providing ample attention to the question ‘who is a journalist?’ and the changing practices of news audiences in the digital era, this Handbook shapes the field and defines the roadmap for the research challenges that scholars will face in the coming decades.