Insta-worthiness of News in New Media Journalism: How to Understand News Values on Instagram

The Internet and Web 2.0 have changed the communication and information systems. Social mediahas emerged as an alternative or a developed version of traditional media. In this respect, journalismis obliged to keep up with the new technology. Social media has become an effective platform forinformati...

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Main Authors: Ilgar Seyıdov, Beris Artan Özoran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Marmara University 2020-12-01
Series:Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1321125
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description The Internet and Web 2.0 have changed the communication and information systems. Social mediahas emerged as an alternative or a developed version of traditional media. In this respect, journalismis obliged to keep up with the new technology. Social media has become an effective platform forinformation and news sharing. Traditional understanding of news values and newsworthiness has beenreconstructed within this period. Concepts such as share, like, comment, etc. have become significantfor news values and newsworthiness in digital age. In this context, this study aims to find out hownews values have changed on social media by focusing on Instagram. To this end, three newspapers,which have highest circulations in Turkey were sampled over a one-month period. Content analysiswas selected as research technique. Based on research questions, three-step analysis was conducted.The findings were discussed in the conclusion. A new term – insta-worthiness – is suggested in thisstudy to clarify the main components of news values on Instagram.
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spelling doaj-art-bd99942e837c465381ee9e15030c2c1a2025-01-26T18:32:08ZengMarmara UniversityTürkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi2630-62202020-12-013618620310.17829/turcom.8033523Insta-worthiness of News in New Media Journalism: How to Understand News Values on InstagramIlgar Seyıdov0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8420-1413Beris Artan Özoran1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1814-4323ATILIM UNIVERSITYANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİThe Internet and Web 2.0 have changed the communication and information systems. Social mediahas emerged as an alternative or a developed version of traditional media. In this respect, journalismis obliged to keep up with the new technology. Social media has become an effective platform forinformation and news sharing. Traditional understanding of news values and newsworthiness has beenreconstructed within this period. Concepts such as share, like, comment, etc. have become significantfor news values and newsworthiness in digital age. In this context, this study aims to find out hownews values have changed on social media by focusing on Instagram. To this end, three newspapers,which have highest circulations in Turkey were sampled over a one-month period. Content analysiswas selected as research technique. Based on research questions, three-step analysis was conducted.The findings were discussed in the conclusion. A new term – insta-worthiness – is suggested in thisstudy to clarify the main components of news values on Instagram.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/1321125haber değeriyeni medyai̇nstagrami̇çerik analizii̇nsta-değerliliknews valuesnew media journalisminstagraminsta-worthinesscontent analysis
spellingShingle Ilgar Seyıdov
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Insta-worthiness of News in New Media Journalism: How to Understand News Values on Instagram
Türkiye İletişim Araştırmaları Dergisi
haber değeri
yeni medya
i̇nstagram
i̇çerik analizi
i̇nsta-değerlilik
news values
new media journalism
instagram
insta-worthiness
content analysis
title Insta-worthiness of News in New Media Journalism: How to Understand News Values on Instagram
title_full Insta-worthiness of News in New Media Journalism: How to Understand News Values on Instagram
title_fullStr Insta-worthiness of News in New Media Journalism: How to Understand News Values on Instagram
title_full_unstemmed Insta-worthiness of News in New Media Journalism: How to Understand News Values on Instagram
title_short Insta-worthiness of News in New Media Journalism: How to Understand News Values on Instagram
title_sort insta worthiness of news in new media journalism how to understand news values on instagram
topic haber değeri
yeni medya
i̇nstagram
i̇çerik analizi
i̇nsta-değerlilik
news values
new media journalism
instagram
insta-worthiness
content analysis
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