Upvoting hurricane sandy: Event-based news production processes on a social news site

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1495-1504

  Leavitt, Alex ^a   Clark, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis communication; Mixed methods; Networked gatekeeping; News framing; News production; Reddit; Social news site

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS; GATEKEEPING; MIXED METHOD; NEWS FRAMING; NEWS PRODUCTIONS; REDDIT; SOCIAL NEWS;

HURRICANES;

EID: 84900406216     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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