From Media Hype to Twitter Storm : The Dynamics of Self Reinforcing Processes in News Waves

The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the p...

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Other Authors: Vasterman, Peter (Editor)
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Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 20180131
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