Sensationalism: Misused in the media industry (focusing on social media) / Aimi Najwa Syuhada Maulud ... [et al.]

Social media describes the phenomena found in, and self-expressive web sites-sites such as Facebook, Twitter, lnstagram, Myspace and Youtube. All the social media represent marketplace communities where can be provide and exchange information. It is also approach in building social networks for example create brand and others.This research examines the Sensationalism: Misused in media industry focusing on social media. The issues that were discuss is focusing about the impact and factor of sensationalism in media. Other than that, the type of medium that were used to read about the news and the challengers that journalist face to write the news.By gathering all the respond from six different informants on the issues of how they can identify the criteria of sensational news that are trending in social media, how does the sensational news can be trusted and the impacts of sensational news to the readers. The researchers are using qualitative research method in order to collect the responds from informants.