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What I miss most: Journalists’ rationalization of relational social media use

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New Media & Society

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Abstract

New Media & Society, Volume 28, Issue 7, Page 3094-3115, July 2026.
Journalists’ social media use is a recent example of long-standing gaps between journalistic discourse and journalistic practice. This manuscript applies the sociological concept of rationalization to explain the persistence of this gap, theorizing that ...