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Overview

Alfred Hermida is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and focuses their research on social sciences, particularly communication. Their work spans 32 publications in social sciences, with 25 in communication, 4 in sociology and political science, 2 in gender studies, 1 in computer networks and communications, and 1 in general social sciences.

The main topics covered in Alfred Hermida's research include:

  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Digital Games and Media
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Digital Marketing and Social Media

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Digital Journalism
  • Media and Communication
  • Espejo de Monografías de Comunicación Social
  • Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
  • Social Media + Society

Recent papers authored by Alfred Hermida focus on journalistic norms, social media practices, and public interaction with news. These include:

  • "Dimensions of Social Media Logics: Mapping Forms of Journalistic Norms and Practices on Twitter and Instagram" (2020, Digital Journalism)
  • "Post-Publication Gatekeeping: The Interplay of Publics, Platforms, Paraphernalia, and Practices in the Circulation of News" (2020, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly)

This researcher frequently collaborates with others in the field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Mary Lynn Young
  • Claudia Mellado
  • Neta Kligler-Vilenchik
  • Sebastián Valenzuela
  • Mikko Villi

Best Publications

  • TWITTERING THE NEWS: The emergence of ambient journalism

    Alfred Hermida

  • A CLASH OF CULTURES The integration of user-generated content within professional journalistic frameworks at British newspaper websites

    Alfred Hermida;Neil J Thurman

  • Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers

    Jane B Singer;Alfred Hermida;David Domingo;Ari Heinonen

  • SHARE, LIKE, RECOMMEND: Decoding the social media news consumer

    Alfred Hermida;Fred Fletcher;Darryl Korell;Donna Logan

  • Content Analysis in an Era of Big Data: A Hybrid Approach to Computational and Manual Methods

    Seth C. Lewis;Rodrigo Zamith;Alfred Hermida

  • Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin's Sources on Twitter During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions

    Alfred Hermida;Seth C. Lewis;Rodrigo Zamith

  • #JOURNALISM: Reconfiguring journalism research about Twitter, one tweet at a time

    Alfred Hermida

  • TWEETS AND TRUTH: Journalism as a discipline of collaborative verification

    Alfred Hermida

  • From TV to Twitter: How Ambient News Became Ambient Journalism

    Alfred Hermida

  • Social Journalism: Exploring how Social Media is Shaping Journalism

    Alfred Hermida

  • Mechanisms of Participation

    Alfred Hermida

  • What Makes for Great Data Journalism

    Mary Lynn Young;Alfred Hermida;Johanna Fulda

  • Fluid Spaces, Fluid Journalism

    Alfred Hermida

  • From Mr. and Mrs. Outlier To Central Tendencies

    Mary Lynn Young;Alfred Hermida

  • Dimensions of Social Media Logics: Mapping Forms of Journalistic Norms and Practices on Twitter and Instagram

    Alfred Hermida;Claudia Mellado

  • The SAGE Handbook of Digital Journalism

    Tamara Witschge;C.W. Anderson;David Domingo;Alfred Hermida

  • Gotcha: How newsroom norms are shaping participatory journalism online

    Neil J Thurman;Alfred Hermida

  • Dealing with the mess (we made): Unraveling hybridity, normativity, and complexity in journalism studies:

    Tamara Witschge;CW Anderson;David Domingo;Alfred Hermida

  • Exploring the Political-Economic Factors Of Participatory Journalism

    Marina Vujnovic;Jane B. Singer;Steve Paulussen;Ari Heinonen

  • The active recipient: participatory journalism through the lens of the Dewey-Lippmann debate

    Alfred Hermida;David Domingo;Ari Heinonen;Steve Paulussen

  • Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News

    Alfred Hermida;Mary Lynn Young

  • Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin's Sources on Twitter During the Tunisian

    Alfred Hermida;Seth C. Lewis;Rodrigo Zamith

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane B. Singer
Jane B. Singer City, University of London
Thorsten Quandt
Thorsten Quandt University of Münster
Seth C. Lewis
Seth C. Lewis University of Oregon

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