New Media Effects: Journalistic Reliance on Twitter and Coverage of Racialized Issues

• In Event: Race, Media, and Intergroup Relations

Brief Overview

News articles that crowdsource from Twitter tend to cover minority communities more favorably than those that do not. We discuss the implications for media coverage and public opinion.

Authors

• Mara Cecilia Ostfeld, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

• Alejandro Javier Pineda, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor