Seven Characteristics Defining Online News Formats: Towards a typology of online news and live blogs
Authors: Thorsen, E. and Jackson, D.
Journal: Digital Journalism
Volume: 6
Issue: 7
Pages: 847-868
eISSN: 2167-082X
ISSN: 2167-0811
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2018.1468722
Abstract:Whilst live blogs have become an established part of the news media ecology, corresponding research is still in its infancy, especially that which examines the crucial question of sourcing practices. Focussing on three UK news organisations–BBC News, the Guardian and the Telegraph–in this article we provide the largest and most comprehensive empirical study to date comparing sourcing practices in online news and live blogs. We analyse sourcing practices across three different genres of live blogging and corresponding online news articles, through a comparative analysis of events broadly categorised as crisis, politics and sport. Our findings suggest that there are some aspects of sourcing practices that are distinct to live blogs, such as directly embedding social media. However, when it comes to polyvocality (the diversity of who gets to speak), genre-specific journalism norms seem to account for more than the affordances of the platform itself and only in sport live blogs are demotic voices habitually included. Based on these findings, we develop a typology of live blogging and online news articles that documents the nuances in sourcing patterns across different news formats and genres, and provide a theoretical basis for future research in this field.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30704/
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SEVEN CHARACTERISTICS DEFINING ONLINE NEWS FORMATS Towards a typology of online news and live blogs
Authors: Thorsen, E. and Jackson, D.
Journal: DIGITAL JOURNALISM
Volume: 6
Issue: 7
Pages: 847-868
eISSN: 2167-082X
ISSN: 2167-0811
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2018.1468722
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30704/
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Seven characteristics defining online news formats: Towards a typology of online news and live blogs
Authors: Thorsen, E. and Jackson, D.
Journal: Digital Journalism
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
ISSN: 2167-0811
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2018.1468722
Abstract:Whilst live blogs have become an established part of the news media ecology, corresponding research is still in its infancy, especially that which examines the crucial question of sourcing practices. Focussing on three UK news organisations – BBC News, the Guardian and the Telegraph – in this article we provide the largest and most comprehensive empirical study to date comparing sourcing practices in online news and live blogs. We analyse sourcing practices across three different genres of live blogging and corresponding online news articles, through a comparative analysis of events broadly categorised as crisis, politics and sport. Our findings suggest that there are some aspects of sourcing practices that are distinct to live blogs, such as directly embedding social media. However, when it comes to polyvocality (the diversity of who gets to speak), genre-specific journalism norms seem to account for more than the affordances of the platform itself and only in sport live blogs are demotic voices habitually included. Based on these findings, we develop a typology of live blogging and online news articles that documents the nuances in sourcing patterns across different news formats and genres, and provide a theoretical basis for future research in this field.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30704/
https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2018.1468722
Source: Manual
Seven characteristics defining online news formats:Towards a typology of online news and live blogs
Authors: Thorsen, E. and Jackson, D.
Journal: Digital Journalism
Volume: 6
Issue: 7
Pages: 847-868
ISSN: 2167-0811
Abstract:Whilst live blogs have become an established part of the news media ecology, corresponding research is still in its infancy, especially that which examines the crucial question of sourcing practices. In this article we address some of the gaps in previous research by conducting a large comparative sourcing analysis of three UK news organisations - BBC News, the Guardian, and the Telegraph - that all regularly publish live blogs. We analyse sourcing practices across three different genres of live blogging and corresponding online news articles, through a comparative analysis of events broadly categorised as crisis, politics, and sport. Our findings suggest that there are some aspects of sourcing practices that are distinct to live blogs, such as directly embedding social media. However, when it comes to polyvocality (the diversity of who gets to speak), genre-specific journalism norms seem to account for more than the affordances of the platform itself and only in sport live blogs are demotic voices habitually included. Based on these findings we develop a typology of live blogging and online news articles, that documents the nuances in sourcing patterns across different news formats and genres, and provide a theoretical basis for future research in this field.
https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/30704/
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