%0 Journal Article
%T Social media engagement in the digital age: Accountability or threats
%A Yanfang Wu
%J Newspaper Research Journal
%@ 2376-4791
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0739532918796236
%X An online survey of newspaper journalists (N = 1,063) shows engagement is a mediator between social media instructions in newsrooms and perceptions or attitude toward social media. The more journalists are engaged with Twitter, the more they believe social media is accountable and social media is less threatening to journalists, journalism and their news organizations. However, social media accountability is not significantly associated with social media as threats
%K social media
%K engagement
%K attitude toward social media
%K accountability
%K threats
%K online survey
%K quantitative
%K structural equation modeling (SEM)
%K digital journalism
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0739532918796236