Research Methods for Social Media Journalism

This volume summarises novel and diverse research methods for both quantitative and qualitative social media journalism-based research. It will appeal to early career and experienced scholars alike who want to study the flow of contemporary news content across various social media platforms.

List of contents

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 Participant Observation 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 Analyses 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

About the author

Jonathan Hendrickx is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Michaël Opgenhaffen is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan (University of Copenhagen Hendrickx
• Assisted by: Jonathan Hendrickx (Editor), Michaël Opgenhaffen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 03.11.2025
• EAN: 9781032940632
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3294063-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Research in Journalism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Press & journalism, The arts, Humanities, Social and cultural history, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism, Research methods: general, Research methods / methodology