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- 1. Newsgathering & Monitoring on The Social Web By: Dina Ali
- 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS • REDDIT • SNAPCHAT • 4CHAN/8CHAN • GAB • BITCHUTE
- 3. “Regardless of your beat or area of focus, understanding how to use the social web to discover, monitor, and research stories is AN ESSENTIAL SKILL”. Carlotta Dotto, a research reporter
- 4. REDDIT More than 430 million monthly active users and over 100,000 active communities
- 5. REDDIT ⊙ It is composed of different subreddits pertaining to particular topics. ⊙ To find content, you can use the search function in the top navigation bar and looking for key terms
- 6. REDDIT ⊙ For example, I will give you the top communities or subreddits/ posts that include Suez Canal. A basic search on Reddit using the keywords “Suez Canal”.
- 7. REDDIT ⊙ You can specify and narrow your search results, including Boolean operators. ⊙ If you wanted to look for posts with CNN content, you could search site:cnn.com. ⊙ Also find particular subreddits by navigating to https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/search.
- 8. REDDIT ⊙ You can set filters on your results, such as sorting the content by certain time frames OR popularity By time frame By popularity
- 9. CrowdTangle works for Reddit Once you customized your lists you can set up alerts to get a top posts from the last 24 hours build lists of subreddits: Such as /r/progressive, /r/conservative P.S. TrackReddit.com17 tool make you monitor the whole of Reddit for specific keywords. **it is only free for the first two.
- 10. SNAPCHAT ⊙More than 200 million users
- 11. SNAPCHAT ⊙It allows users to send short texts or video clips and post some clips publicly as ‘stories’ and available to search. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/technology/snapchat-redesign-social-media.html
- 12. SNAPCHAT ⊙Snap Map 1) Displaying the locations of posted material in a heatmap, but not showing who posted it. 2) Newsworthy footage is occasionally posted to the map, although it is impossible to reach the uploader https://bgr.com/2018/02/12/snapchat-snap-map-web-browser-new-feature/
- 14. 4CHAN/8CHAN ⊙Message boards are good places to monitor for newsworthy stories. ⊙it has gained notoriety over the years for becoming a breeding ground for extremism, violence and conspiracy theories. ⊙Divisive hashtags, messages and internet hoaxes often originate on message board ⊙In early August 2019 8chan was taken down from the publicly accessible web. Back again to a new new 8kun
- 15. GAB 100,000 (estimated active) 4 million (total) as of March 2021
- 16. GAB ⊙Very close functionality to Twitter ⊙Gab markets itself as a vehicle for free speech and doesn't crack down on posts that would be considered hateful or containing false information. ⊙Now, after Facebook and Twitter banned President Trump from their platforms following the US Capitol siege, many on the right are flocking to sites like Gab https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-gab-social-media-platform -free-speech-first-amendment-2021-1 https://fortune.com/2017/08/18/uncensored-social-network-gab-raises-1-million-in-crowdfunding-campaign/
- 17. BITCHUTE A video-hosting site akin in many ways to YouTube
- 18. BITCHUTE ⊙ Created to avoid the kind of content regulation rules in place on other platforms ⊙ Emphasizes “free-speech” ⊙BitChute is doing little to remove hateful content ⊙You can set Keywords and filters on your results by last trending news, popular ones and also can subscribe certain channels https://www.searchenginejournal.com/alternative-social-media-platforms/392932/#close