Where has the news gone? A network approach to secondary gatekeeping on Twitter in The Netherlands and Belgium

Gatekeeping has been identified as a largely top-down process, with elites such as government actors, PR sources, experts and journalists filtering the information that is incorporated in the news output and then distributed to mass audiences (Shoemaker & Reese, 2001). However in the past ten years, scholars have welcomed the arrival of social media as a potential catalyst for increased user involvement. Whereas it has become clear that the integration of user contributions in the news production process remains fairly limited (e.g. Authors), other studies suggest that users may play a big... Mehr ...