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- Title
La (re)presentación del periodista en Twitter: claves para la construcción de la identidad digital profesional.
- Authors
Pérez-Díaz, Pedro-Luis; Planes Pedreño, José Antonio
- Abstract
This research examines the self-presentation performed by journalism professionals on their Twitter profiles. Based on the dramaturgical approach to social interaction proposed by Erving Goffman (1971), we designed a content analysis that was conducted on a census sample of 1,207 Twitter accounts of journalists that work for four leading Spanish news organizations: two newspapers (El Pa's and El Mundo), and two digital-native news outlets (Eldiario.es and ElConfidencial.com). The identity construction studied was divided into professional, personal, interactive, and activity-related dimensions. Our conclusions support that journalists place professional aspects before intimate ones, an 'appearance' that contributes to a clear occupational identification. Although their participatory 'manners' are limited, the 'performance' described by the interdependencies between their social activity metrics -join date, number of followers, following, tweets, or likes- is relevant to delimit opportunities for interaction with an active audience.
- Subjects
X Corp.; DRAMATURGICAL approach; IDENTITY (Psychology); GOFFMAN, Erving, 1922-1982; SOCIAL interaction; CONTENT analysis; SELF-presentation; FATHERS; CENSUS
- Publication
Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodistico, 2021, Vol 27, Issue 4, p1175
- ISSN
1134-1629
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5209/esmp.71007