Twitter – ponowoczesne źródło informacji

Marek Palczewski

Abstract

Traditional sources of information with the advent of the era of social media have been supplemented by new sources, which are characteristic of online technology. They gain increasing importance. Twitter due to its specificity, particularly suitable for coverage of disasters, natural disasters, demonstrations, riots, wars, unexpected developments and rapidly changing, for whom traditional media often do not keep up. Twitter, like any source of information, it is not a great source. There are fraudulent, deceptive account tweets, on the official interference and pages hack offices, unverified information, confabulations and digitally manipulated photographs or movies. "Twitter? I won't touch it. It's all garbage. " "-written by one of the sociologist of media. However, Twitter is a source of information both personal and impersonal, official and unofficial, and available manufactured information from the first and second hand; it is the source of the post-modern in which the flow of information shall be carried out on a scale hitherto unknown in traditional media.