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 |
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, Nimwegen, NIederlande |
Publisher Information: | Nimwegen, NIederlande : Radboud University |
Year of publication: | 2021 |
Pages: | 66-70 |
Language(s): | English |
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 |
Type: | Conferenceobject |
URI: | https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/54022 |
Release Date: | 12. May 2022 |

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