Live Text Coverage of Political Events : Combining Content and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis
Faculty/Professorship: | Communication Studies ; English and Historical Linguistics |
Author(s): | Michael, Hendrik ; Werner, Valentin ![]() |
Title of the compilation: | Proceedings of the 8th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2021) |
Editors: | Hendrickx, Iris; Verheijen, Lieke; van de Wijngaert, Lidwien |
Corporate Body: | Radbound University |
Conference: | 8th Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora 2021), Nijmegen |
Publisher Information: | Bamberg : Otto-Friedrich-Universität |
Year of publication: | 2021 |
Pages: | 66-70 |
Source/Other editions: | 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(s): | English |
DOI: | 10.20378/irb-51860 |
Licence: | Creative Commons - CC BY - Attribution 4.0 International |
URL: | https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.php/s/XA9... |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:473-irb-518605 |
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. |
GND Keywords: | Politische Kommunikation; Weblog |
Keywords: | online news, live text, live blogging, political journalism, digital journalism, media studies, media linguistics |
DDC Classification: | 070 News media, journalism & publishing |
RVK Classification: | AP 14150 |
Peer Reviewed: | Ja |
International Distribution: | Ja |
Open Access Journal: | Ja |
Type: | Conferenceobject |
URI: | https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/51860 |
Release Date: | 24. January 2022 |
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