Microblog as a Genre in Slovak Social Media Cover Image

Mikroblog jako gatunek w słowackich mediach społecznościowych
Microblog as a Genre in Slovak Social Media

Author(s): Natália Kolenčíková
Subject(s): Media studies, Communication studies, Politics and communication, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Facebook; microblog; political communication; pre-election discourse; status; genre; genre norm;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to detect synchronic textual-typological characteristics of microblog as a current attractive communication segment according to its frequency and authorship. Our analysis is based on linguistic, traditional-genologic and media-communication idea background, available scientific literature and research of situation, not only, but mostly in Slovak electronic communication area. The topic is analysed and interpreted through the prism of five criteria of genre norm – thematic, functional, compositional, formal and linguistic. The background material base is composed of 700 microblog communication units from the area of social network Facebook published by individual parliamentary political parties before 2016 election in Slovakia. We have also used corresponding Polish-language texts from the pre-election period (2015) using comparative-contrastive method.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 3 (235)
  • Page Range: 460-475
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish