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work_zl4y4fd4evh2vcxvp5nffgtkjy	Nikki Usher	Sharing Knowledge and "Microbubbles": Epistemic Communities and Insularity in US Political Journalism	2020	13	.pdf	application/pdf	10107	1981	64	Sharing Knowledge and "Microbubbles": Epistemic Communities and Insularity in US Political Journalism This article examines the peer-to-peer dynamics of Washington political journalists as Communities of Practice (CoPs) employ inductive computational analysis that combines social network analysis of journalists' Twitter interactions with media elites, political journalism, Communities of Practice, epistemic communities, Twitter, social network analysis and how to cover it, particularly as peers across news organizations, stands to shed insight into the contours of the insularity long observed in political communication scholarship hybridized media environment, Washington political journalists still have outsized power, status, and influence in and Engesser (2014) observed this among contemporary climate journalists, noting the practice of knowledge sharing (producers); local political news; regulatory journalism; foreign affairs; longform/enterprise; and social issues. Proxies such as top hashtags and mentions suggest this cluster is focused on general interest political news. On Twitter, a platform absolutely integral to the political journalism news production process, CNN journalists have limited engagement 	./cache/work_zl4y4fd4evh2vcxvp5nffgtkjy.pdf	./txt/work_zl4y4fd4evh2vcxvp5nffgtkjy.txt