2014
DOI: 10.1177/1464884914553079
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‘Tweet or be sacked’: Twitter and the new elements of journalistic practice

Abstract: Twitter has gained notoriety in the field of journalism due in part to its ubiquity and powerful interactional affordances. Through a combination of digital ethnography and content analysis, this article analyzes journalistic practice and meta-discourse on Twitter. Whereas most applications of Bourdieu’s field theory focus on macro-level dynamics, this study addresses the micro- and mezzo-level elements of journalism, including practices, capital, habitus, and doxa. Findings suggest that each of these elements… Show more

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“…Normalization, however, is not seamless or straightforward. Blogs, now a regular feature of traditional news output, still draw the ire of some journalists who see bloggers as somehow 'other', 2 and Twitter is viewed inconsistently; alternatively, as a service journalists use to reach their audience (Artwick 2013), an avenue to source material (Vis 2013), or as an imposition on news routines (Barnard 2016).…”
Section: Reacting To Disruption: Normalizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Normalization, however, is not seamless or straightforward. Blogs, now a regular feature of traditional news output, still draw the ire of some journalists who see bloggers as somehow 'other', 2 and Twitter is viewed inconsistently; alternatively, as a service journalists use to reach their audience (Artwick 2013), an avenue to source material (Vis 2013), or as an imposition on news routines (Barnard 2016).…”
Section: Reacting To Disruption: Normalizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1 Barnard (2016) points to eight diff erent types of practices via social media: information collection, news dissemination, sourcing, public note-making, public engagement, journalistic meta-discourse, other professional (inter)actions, and personal (inter)actions. His typology is thus most rich and fi negrained in terms of journalists' professional uses of social media, but less so in terms of personal uses.…”
Section: Notesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In a digital ethnographic content analysis of 1,044 tweets, research established a typology of eight practices used by reporters on Twitter: information collection, sourcing, news dissemination, public engagement, brief note-taking, field meta-discourse, other professional (inter)actions, and personal (inter)actions (Barnard, 2014), further illustrating the normalization of Twitter in the reporting process and demonstrating that a large portion of the journalistic field is "undergoing significant transformation, resulting in the emergence of a hybrid networked habitus"-that is, a growing acceptance of digital and interactive practices (p. 12).…”
Section: Researchers At Cisionmentioning
confidence: 99%