The Usage of Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera News Channels of Twitter to Disseminate Breakdown News
, Vol.8
, Twenty Sixth Issue
PP:16 - 30
Authors:
Hassan Ahmed Abusharifah-Teaching Assistant of Electronic journalism,Electronic journalism,College of Arts & Human Sciences,Jazan University
Abstract:
Social media platforms such as Twitter have become an important tool
for the field of journalism. Twitter plays a major role in both the newsroom and
the selection of information process. This study aims to investigate the type of
content used in Twitter feeds, as well as the type of news on Twitter feeds in
breaking news from both Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera news channels. Guided by
gatekeeping theory and networking gatekeeping perspective, this study explored
the relationship between the type of news and retweeting and the influence of
the interaction between editors and audience on the presented type of news to
the audience in the Middle East. The study used a quantitative content analysis
to analyze 500 tweets collected from both Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera, 250
tweets from each account, from the period of February 1st to February 28th of
2019. The results indicated that Al-Jazeera posted tweets about political news
more than Al-Arabiya and both Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera rely on Twitter to
disseminate human interest, entertainment news more than any other type of
news. Also, the results indicated that there is a strong correlation between the
type of news and the number of retweets. Political news gets the greatest
number of retweets and more replies than other type of news.
Key Words:
Al Arabia Channel, ALJazeera Channel, Twitter, breaking news.
Research Language:
English
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