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Tereszkiewicz, Anna

doi:10.2478/v10148-011-0024-2

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“…While previous studies (Tereskiewicz, 2014) have diagnosed an overall informal tone in political LT, as regards objectivity and its linguistic representation, political LT appears to continue traditional news media practices concerning objectivity principles (cf. Donsbach & Klett, 1993), as stated in H2.…”

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Live Text Coverage of Political Events : Combining Content and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis

Michael¹,

Werner²

2021

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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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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 81%