“Don’t be stupid.” The role of social media policies in journalistic boundary-setting

• Main Authors: Duffy, Andrew, Knight, Megan
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Boundary-setting; DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication; Social Media Policies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86215; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48314
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Social media are now firmly embedded in professional newsrooms, and policies and guidance within these newsrooms have evolved to include social media activities. These policies articulate and expose the underlying assumptions of the role of these new media within the traditional boundaries of the ne...