Value of Soft News and Celebrity News – ‘It Is [Not] All the Same’: What Celebrity Journalism Can Learn From the ‘Logan Paul Suicide Forest Scandal’

The present study collected 2223 tweets of news about the Top 100 celebrities from People Magazine’s Twitter account during the year 2016. A combination of content analysis and social network analysis was used to examine celebrity attributes, news features, and the relationships between celebrities and news topics. Results indicated that news agendas and audiences’ responses were highly different. News coverage was primarily determined by news features, yet audiences cared only about big stars. Regular topics centered on the themes of celebrity news. The celebrity-by-topic network was topic-driven rather than human-driven, demonstrating the nature of the celebrity industry as an embodiment of capitalist society.

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Soft News

IEEE Software ◽

10.1109/ms.1986.233732 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 85-88

Keyword(s):

Soft News

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How Do Young Adults Engage With Science and Research on Social Media? Some Preliminary Findings and an Agenda for Future Research

Social Media + Society ◽

10.1177/2056305118797720 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 205630511879772 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Eszter Hargittai ◽

Tobias Füchslin ◽

Mike S. Schäfer

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Young Adults ◽

Public Engagement ◽

Science Communication ◽

Future Research ◽

Research Material ◽

Considerable Research ◽

Public Engagement With Science ◽

Celebrity News ◽

Science And Research

While considerable research has looked at how people use the Internet for sharing and engaging with various types of content from celebrity news to politics, very little of this work has considered how non-specialists interact with science and research material on social media. This article reviews literature on public engagement with science to note that this area is ripe for research on social-media-based engagement in particular. Drawing on a survey of American young adults’ online experiences, we show that using social media for science and research is at least as likely if not more so as engagement with other topics from similarly serious to lighter domains. We also find that platform matters with young adults much more likely to engage with such content on Facebook rather than on Twitter. We end by proposing more focus on this domain in the area of science communication and work on social media.

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