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Live Text Coverage of Political Events : Combining Content and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis
Michael, Hendrik; Werner, Valentin (2021): Live Text Coverage of Political Events : Combining Content and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis, in: Iris Hendrickx, Lieke Verheijen, und Lidwien van de Wijngaert (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 8th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2021), Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich-Universität, S. 66–70, doi: 10.20378/irb-51860.
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Title of the compilation:
Proceedings of the 8th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2021)
Corporate Body:
Radbound University
Conference:
8th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2021) ; Nijmegen
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Year of publication:
2021
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Proceedings of the 8th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities. Hendrickx, Iris; Verheijen, Lieke; van de Wijngaert, Lidwien (Hg). - Nimwegen, NIederlande : Radboud University, 2021, S. 66-70
Year of first publication:
2021
Language:
English
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Abstract:
Live text (LT) has emerged as a web-native CMC alternative to traditional forms of live broadcasting. Through a combined content and corpus-based discourse analysis of the LT coverage of a major political event (the 2020 US presidential debates), the present study tests (i) how current LTs emphasize transparency and accountability, and (ii) how they are a form of journalistic communication that normalizes professional norms of objectivity in hybrid media settings. Political LT emerges as multi-layered and multi-authored discourse that places strong emphasis on accountability and disclosure transparency by updating and linking information, while maintaining the journalistic gatekeeping/gatewatching function. Linguistically, it is characterized by an informal tone but also by a continuation of traditional news media practices as regards objectivity, as instantiated by the salience of debate topics and political terms and – unlike the more widely studied sports LT – by a clear delineation of information from opinion and contextualization.
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Politische Kommunikation
Weblog
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online news
live text
live blogging
political journalism
digital journalism
media studies
media linguistics
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Peer Reviewed:
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International Distribution:
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Conferenceobject
Activation date:
January 24, 2022
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