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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter
1. The two dominant views of Twitter and news journalism

1.1. Twitter as enabling and benefiting news journalism

1.2. Twitter as distorting news journalism

Chapter
2. Punctuated equilibrium: disruption, adaption and normalisation

2.1. The institution of news journalism and punctuated equilibrium

2.2. Disruption as a commonplace event

Chapter
3. What news journalists say about their use of Twitter

3.1. Qualitative approach: research interviews

3.2. Questionnaire themes concerning the evolutionary impact of Twitter on news journalism

3.3 Journalists’ evaluation of Twitter’s costs and benefits to news journalism

Chapter
4. From disruption to normalisation: journalists’ accounts on Twitter (2009?2021)

4.1. An account of the participants

4.2. The participants’ first Tweets: 2009?2011

4.3. The ‘presentation of self’: how the participants chose to display their biographical information

4.4. Account core features: account activity, use of hashtags and mentions and formatting tweets and textual choices

Chapter
5. An evaluation of the direct and indirect costs and benefits of Twitter to news journalism

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