| Autor: |
Stinesen, Baukje, Sneijder, Petra, Klarenbeek, Annette |
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Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap; 2018, Vol. 46 Issue 4, p316-336, 21p |
| Abstrakt: |
This article presents the results of a discursive psychological analysis of the evolvement of rumours on social media. The focus of the analysis lies on the discursive strategies participants use in their tweets about a particular crisis situation, and how these strategies contribute to the creation and evolvement of a rumour. Rather than treating language as a neutral medium for describing events and sending information, discursive psychology focuses on language as a tool to perform actions with and to accomplish particular effects. The analysis shows that participants construct and forward particular versions of reality or scenarios by selecting certain formulations over others, thereby constructing and eventually maintaining a specific rumour. The study provides an important addition to existing discourse analytic studies focusing on online data. Moreover, the study offers important insights to professionals in the domain of crisis communication which they can use when designing their communication strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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