Intermedia Agenda Setting Between Social Media And Traditional News In Kenya: An Analysis Of The Relationship Between The Twitter Hashtag #Lipakamatender And Citizen Television News

Intermedia Agenda setting –Instances when the media agenda is shaped by other media (Lopez-Escobar, Llamas, McCombs, & Lennon, 1998). #KOT- This is an abbreviation of ‗Kenyans on Twitter‘. Operates as Kenya‘s virtual ‗town square‘ where pre-dominantly on Twitter, people meet to discuss the day‘s issues. Through the hashtag #KOT, Kenyans on Twitter unite against perceived government corruption, respond to media misrepresentations of their country, share jokes, and participate in global conversations. (Kaigwa & Wu, 2015). #LipaKamaTender- Kiswahili for ‗Pay like a Tender‘, a hashtag coined to critique the Kenyan government in 2016/2017. It was one of the most intense (going by the tweets) hash tags that have ever emanated from #KOT (Okeyo, 2017). News surveillance- The tendency of a media house to look for information to be included in its editorial content (Shoemaker, 1996). Prime time News –Defined as a block of broadcast programming in the middle of the evening in television (Geraghty, 1991).

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KIAMBO, C (2021). Intermedia Agenda Setting Between Social Media And Traditional News In Kenya: An Analysis Of The Relationship Between The Twitter Hashtag #Lipakamatender And Citizen Television News. Afribary. Retrieved from https://afribary.com/works/intermedia-agenda-setting-between-social-media-and-traditional-news-in-kenya-an-analysis-of-the-relationship-between-the-twitter-hashtag-lipakamatender-and-citizen-television-news

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KIAMBO, CAROLYNE "Intermedia Agenda Setting Between Social Media And Traditional News In Kenya: An Analysis Of The Relationship Between The Twitter Hashtag #Lipakamatender And Citizen Television News" Afribary. Afribary, 11 May. 2021, https://afribary.com/works/intermedia-agenda-setting-between-social-media-and-traditional-news-in-kenya-an-analysis-of-the-relationship-between-the-twitter-hashtag-lipakamatender-and-citizen-television-news. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.

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KIAMBO, CAROLYNE . "Intermedia Agenda Setting Between Social Media And Traditional News In Kenya: An Analysis Of The Relationship Between The Twitter Hashtag #Lipakamatender And Citizen Television News". Afribary, Afribary, 11 May. 2021. Web. 18 Apr. 2024. < https://afribary.com/works/intermedia-agenda-setting-between-social-media-and-traditional-news-in-kenya-an-analysis-of-the-relationship-between-the-twitter-hashtag-lipakamatender-and-citizen-television-news >.

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KIAMBO, CAROLYNE . "Intermedia Agenda Setting Between Social Media And Traditional News In Kenya: An Analysis Of The Relationship Between The Twitter Hashtag #Lipakamatender And Citizen Television News" Afribary (2021). Accessed April 18, 2024. https://afribary.com/works/intermedia-agenda-setting-between-social-media-and-traditional-news-in-kenya-an-analysis-of-the-relationship-between-the-twitter-hashtag-lipakamatender-and-citizen-television-news