Journalists and Twitter: How Australian News Organisations Adapt to a New Medium
- 1 August 2012
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Media International Australia
- Vol. 144 (1), 97-107
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1214400114
Abstract
Twitter has developed an increasingly visible presence in Australian journalism, and in the discussion of news. This article examines the positioning of journalists as ‘personal brands’ on Twitter by documenting the visibility of leading personal and institutional accounts during two major political events in Australia: the Rudd/Gillard leadership spill on 23 June 2010, and the day of the subsequent federal election on 21 August 2010. It highlights the fact that in third-party networks such as Twitter, journalists and news organisations no longer operate solely on their own terms, as they do on their own websites, but gain and maintain prominence in the network and reach for their messages only in concert with other users. It places these observations in a wider context of journalist–audience relations a decade after the emergence of the first citizen journalism websites.Keywords
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