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Erin Kissane

Is there a canonical essay about (the problems with and complexities of) social media aggregation as journalism that I can just link to so I don't have to break down the angles and weirdnesses myself?

There *has* to be, right?

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Evan Prodromou

@kissane are you talking about aggregation on a personal level, like when I bring my Instagram, Reddit and WordPress feeds all into Twitter?

Or aggregation like when two or three big companies keep buying up the new startups?

Erin Kissane

@evan Oh no, I mean when journalists collect up a bunch of e.g. tweets and post them with a couple of paragraphs and call it a story. (Really I mean when editors assign this kind of story.)

"Aggregate" is just how I've heard it talked about within journalism.

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jwz

@kissane I object to calling those people journalists! Burn it with fire.

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Rachael Ludwick

@jwz @kissane a very frustrating aspect of this, uh, “style” (?!) is that sometimes folks who are journalists get pushed into it by editors and publication priories and journalists are also people who need to keep their jobs.

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jwz

@r343l @kissane That's obviously horrible, but it doesn't make what those people are doing journalism, no matter what it says on their pay stub.

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Rachael Ludwick

@jwz @kissane I don’t disagree that the result isn’t journalism. Just sad about how many people trained to be journalists and get stuck doing it sometimes.

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Erin Kissane

@jwz Eh, I mean everyone hates the worst examples but there’s a whole spectrum. Covering non-celebrity social media fights is standard practice now, if the fights are zingy or stupid enough. And for years now we’ve had the professionals driving news cycles from Twitter. Deeply weird on a structural level.

So like…call it whatever, but it merits some careful attention as a phenomenon, I think.

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Wraithe

@kissane @evan My favorite version of this is when they do this and just put embedded links to the tweets/posts, so that when/if the person deletes the tweet it leaves a big dead block in their “article”

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Evan Prodromou

@kissane "The Internet is Losing Its Collective Mind over Left Shark"

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