From media hype to Twitter storm : news explosions and their impact on issues, crises and public opinion / edited by Peter Vasterman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the public area. Sometimes it is indeed 'much ado about nothing' but in many cases these media storms have played an important role in political issues, scandals and crises. Twitter storms sometimes ruin reputations within hours. Although different concepts are used, such as media hypes, news waves, media storms, information cascades or risk amplification, all the studies in this book refer to the same process in which key events trigger a chain of reactions and interactions, building up huge news waves in the media or rapidly spreading social epidemics in the social media.

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I. Theory, concepts, and methodology -- 1. Media hypes, moral panics, and the ambiguous nature of facts : urban security as discursive formation -- 2. News waves in a changing media landscape 1950-2014 -- 3. The dynamics of media attention to issues : towards standardizing measures, dimensions, and profiles -- 4. Hype, argumentation, and scientific dissemination -- II. Anatomy of self-reinforcing dynamics : case studies -- 5. The mechanisms of media storms -- 6. Much ado about nothing : five media hypes in a comparative perspective -- 7. From media wave to media tsunami : the 'charter of values' debate in Quebec, 2012-2014 -- 8. How a small-scale panic turns into an unstoppable news wave about mass mugging on the beach -- III. Impact on issues, crises, and public opinion -- 9. Dynamics of media hype : interactivity of the media and the public -- 10. Why and how media storms affect front-line workers -- 11. Media hypes and public opinion -- 12. News waves generating attentionscapes : opportunity or a waste of public time? -- IV. Interactivity : the role of social media -- 13. Modelling issue-attention dynamics in a hybrid media system -- 14. You won't believe how co-dependent they are, or: Media hype and the interaction of news media, social media, and the user -- 15. From racial hoaxes to media hypes : fake news' real consequences -- 16. Reputational damage on Titter #hijack : factors, dynamics, and response strategies for crowdsourced campaigns.

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