Tandoc Jr., Edson; Cabañes, Jason Vincent and Cayabyab, Ysa. 2019. Bridging the Gap: Journalists’ role orientation and role performance on Twitter. Journalism Studies, 20(6), pp. 857-871. ISSN 1461-670X [Article]

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Combining a content analysis of 760 tweets and a survey of journalists who tweeted them, this study revisits the questioned assumption that journalists’ conception of their roles manifests in their journalistic outputs. Studies that have tested this assumption instead found a gap between role orientation and performance, possibly explained by how journalistic outputs are organizational products. Thus, this study focused on role performance as observed in journalists’ individual posts on Twitter, a social media platform that has been normalized and now embedded in news routines. If tweets are personal outputs, they should bear the imprint of the journalists who posted them. The findings of this study lend support to this claim.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2018.1463168
Additional Information:	"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journalism Studies on 13 April 2018, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2018.1463168. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited."
Keywords:	content analysis; journalistic role; role theory; survey; Twitter
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event 3 April 2018 Accepted 13 April 2018 Published Online 2019 Published
Item ID:	36893
Date Deposited:	20 Jun 2024 11:16
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2024 04:14
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36893

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