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https://doi.org/10.22522/cmr20160213
Twitter as Popular Journalistic Platform – Similarities and Differences Between Jutarnji List and Večernji List
Leali Osmančević
orcid.org/0000-0002-2377-2332
; Department of Communication Sciences, Catholic University of Croatia, Croatia
Abstract
The article deals with Twitter as a popular platform for media and journalists. Journalism, as a profession, is now in the 21st century even more accessible to all media audiences mainly because of the rapid development of social networks and mobile media. Twitter is one of the most popular social platforms, and microblogging services and a large number of media and journalists have their official Twitter accounts through which they share the latest news and media content as well as connect with their audience on a daily basis. Twitter has a lot of advantages in the context of journalism, but it is important to firstly learn how to use it in a professional and most beneficial way. The article also presents results of research whose main goal was to determine ways of communicating and possible similarities and differences between two Croatian daily newspapers, Jutarnji list and Večernji list, on Twitter.
Keywords
social networks; Twitter; journalism; daily newspapers; Jutarnji list; Večernji list
Hrčak ID:
171951
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2016.
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