Political Journalists’ Interaction Networks
Political Journalists’ Interaction Networks
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政治记者的互动网络
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2016
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Christian Nuernbergk
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Christian Nuernbergk
本文探讨了政治记者在Twitter上与谁互动以及他们分享了哪些信息。这些关系的探讨相结合的内容分析和网络分析的互动模式。对记者个人账户上公布的活动进行了研究。先前的研究表明，精英记者尤其主要寻求保持守门人的地位，并倾向于使新兴的通信空间正常化。截至2014年2月，德国联邦新闻发布会上只有四分之一的议会记者拥有个人推特账户。对2014年3月一周内发布的所有推文（N = 2210）的内容分析表明，德国政治记者显然将Twitter规范化，以适应现有的做法：记者大多在Twitter上发布与公众相关的通信，并以信息为导向的风格进行报道。透明度仅限于他们感兴趣的主题，他们没有为受众提供直接机会，使其在新闻制作过程中更加积极。网络分析表明，记者特别将政治家纳入他们的常规接触圈。然而，互动网络显然以记者之间的交流为主。通过这种方式，记者的推文使我们能够观察专家的谈话，而不是鼓励用户参与讨论。
This article examines with whom political journalists interact on Twitter and what information they share. These relations are explored by combining a content analysis and a network analysis of interaction patterns. The activities published on journalists’ personal accounts are studied. Prior research has shown that elite journalists, in particular, mainly seek to remain gatekeepers and tend to normalize emerging communication spaces. Only one-quarter of the parliamentary correspondents in the German Federal Press Conference had an individual Twitter profile as of February 2014. The content analysis of all tweets published during a week in March 2014 (N = 2210) reveals that German political journalists clearly normalize Twitter to fit existing practices: the journalists mostly tweeted about publicly relevant communication and reported in an information-oriented style. Transparency was limited on their topics of interest, and they did not provide direct opportunities for the audience to become more active in the news-creation process. The network analysis shows that the correspondents especially incorporated politicians into their regular circle of contacts. Nevertheless, the interaction networks were clearly dominated by exchanges between journalists. In this way, journalists’ tweets allow us to observe expert talks rather than encouraging users to participate in a discussion.