Agrandir et quitter le nid du local : l’usage de Twitter par les journalistes dans des rédactions de médias régionaux

• Main Author: Valérie Jeanne-Perrier
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Presses Universitaires du Mirail 2012-10-01
• Series: Sciences de la Société
• Subjects: Twitter; local journalism; software devices; cooptation; semiology
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sds/1928

Communication devices established by social networks brands, such as Twitter, can be considered as filters in order to monitor professional journalistic mutations. In these formatting tools in which people are speaking from a personal point of view, local journalists talk about their craft and actions. However, and while observing the defining elements of the profiles and messages produce, it is possible to see these devices as digital resources for negotiating individual and collective identities in the professions linked to the production of news. The analysis is conducted from a corpus of 30 profiles on Twitter created by local journalistic. It highlights the communication processes established in and around the device. This research doesn’t attempt to provide a mapping of relations between journalists. It emphasizes how individuals mobilize digital tools in their professional careers, as discursive and social levers to “do” journalism and “express” this practice in a third communication space, outside newsrooms’connections. Such a process makes visible that a professional competence is emerging, around a skill of making visible its habilities for journalism. In this process, the brand of social network is both a source (and one containing an altar to information content) and a resource (a lever for action).