Live online news : From content presentation to interactive co-participation
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Based on an extensive data set of live news from British online newspapers, the paper highlights the specific narrative structure of these ‘news texts in progress’ and identifies several types of live news. It maps some of its differences from traditional ‘post-event’ news reports as well as from spoken live news broadcasts. Adopting a broad pragmatic perspective on the data, the paper focuses on the shift from the presentation of content in traditional news stories towards the role of interactivity in live online news. It is argued that the extensive interactive potential is one of the key features of live online news, which clearly sets it apart from other formats of media reporting. As a result, the recipients of live news texts may choose to become directly involved by means of not only commenting but also gathering, mediating and remediating the news. This interactive nature of live news leads to the necessity to rethink the participation frameworks of these communicative encounters because of the changing role of the audience from recipients to potential co-authors. |
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