Tandoc, EC, Cabanes, JVA orcid.org/0000-0001-6276-9198 and Cayabyab, YM (2019) Bridging the gap: Journalists' role orientation and role performance on Twitter. Journalism Studies, 20 (6). pp. 857-871. ISSN 1461-670X
Abstract
Combining a content analysis of 760 tweets and a survey of journalists who tweeted them, this study revisits the questioned assumption that journalists’ conception of their roles manifests in their journalistic outputs. Studies that have tested this assumption instead found a gap between role orientation and performance, possibly explained by how journalistic outputs are organizational products. Thus, this study focused on role performance as observed in journalists’ individual posts on Twitter, a social media platform that has been normalized and now embedded in news routines. If tweets are personal outputs, they should bear the imprint of the journalists who posted them. The findings of this study lend support to this claim.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Journalism Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | content analysis; journalistic role; role theory; survey; Twitter |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts and Communications (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2018 14:36 |
Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2019 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/1461670X.2018.1463168 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:132732 |