The journalistic genres on Twitter. A comparative study of journalistic organizations

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  • Lia Fonseca Seixas Universidade Federal da Bahia

Keywords:

Journalistic Genres. Journalics Genres. Twitter.

Abstract

Twitter is now considered an indispensable tool for news organizations. But what the news organizations have been produced on Twitter? Could you say that Twitter has created new journalistic genres? Studying the tweets of @guardian_world, @folha_mundo (about Egypt’s Revolution), @folha_cotidiano and @el_pais through comparative analysis during a week, it was found that there are new “journalistic genres” (SEIXAS, 2009), which, although common in other fields, were not common in journalistic products when the social institution is an utterer of discourse. The only common journalistc genre is known as “informational”, while the most produced “journalics genres” are the “promotional”, based on direct acts (SEARLE, 1998), the genres of “mediaton”, grounded on retweet, and the “dialogics”.

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Author Biography

Lia Fonseca Seixas, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Professor adjunto do Departamento de Comunicação da Facom-UFBA

Published

2011-12-21

How to Cite

Seixas, L. F. “The Journalistic Genres on Twitter. A Comparative Study of Journalistic Organizations”. Intexto, no. 25, Dec. 2011, pp. 41-59, https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/intexto/article/view/22880.

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