The rise of the fifth estate : social media and blogging in Australian politics /
By: Jericho, Greg
Material type: BookPublisher: Victoria, Australia : Scribe, c2012.Description: 313 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9781921844935Subject(s): Social media -- Australia | Digital media -- Australia | Political science -- Australia -- Blogs | Digital communications -- AustraliaDDC classification: 302.2310994 JE RI Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 302.2310994 JE RI (Browse shelf) | Available | T0046692 |
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302.2310141 GE DI Discourse and identity on Facebook | 302.23102437812 CA SO Social media for academics | 302.23108350973 MI HA Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out : | 302.2310994 JE RI The rise of the fifth estate : | 302.2322 RI AN Analysing newspapers : | 302.234 HE MA Manufacturing consent : | 302.234 MA SS Mass media and society / |
Using original research, this account examines the emergence of social media as a new force in the coverage of Australian politics. As it reveals who makes up the Australian political blogosphere, it tackles some of its key developments, such as the way that Australia's journalists and federal politicians use social media and digital news, the motivations of bloggers and tweeters, the treatment of female participants, and the eruption of Twitter wars. Arguing that journalists welcome Twitter as a work tool and platform despite having to deal with vitriolic online comments, this book demonstrates how politicians, meanwhile, are finding it hard to engage genuinely with the new media. Because the new social media are here to stay and their political role and influence are bound to increase, the real question is whether the old structures of the political world will absorb this new force or be changed by it.