Michael, HendrikHendrikMichael0000-0002-6818-0533Werner, ValentinValentinWerner0000-0003-2669-35572022-01-242022-01-242021https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/51860Live 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.engonline newslive textlive bloggingpolitical journalismdigital journalismmedia studiesmedia linguistics070conferenceobjecturn:nbn:de:bvb:473-irb-518605