Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld’s Publications
- Tabula gratulatoria
- Bilingual Learners’ Dictionaries in the Lexicographic Landscape
- Feel Free To… A Comparative Study of Phraseological Borrowing
- What’s in a Name? Does the Proliferation of Pejorative Terms Such as Denglis(c)h and Similar Items in German Attest to Neo-puristic Attitudes Towards Anglicisms?
- English in Confrontation with Languages and Cultural Heritage of Asian Countries: Promotion or Threat?
- Slavic Dirъ in the Arab-Muslim Geographical Literature
- Linguistic Landscapes: The Multilingual Cityscape of Kraków
- On Russenorsk -om in Particular and on Etymology and Creolistics in General
- Ponglish in the British Isles: A Few Sociolinguistic Remarks on the Issue
- Language Contact and Identity: Three Possible Scenarios
- European Echoes of English, South African Style?
- Open Spelling of Nominal Compounds in Contemporary Swedish and the Question of English Influence
- To -s or Not to -s? Plural Marking on Anglicisms in Spoken German
- Classification of Pseudo-anglicisms in Japanese
- Underdeterminacy, Indeterminacy and Speaker’s Intentions
- Globalisation and the Linguistic and Cultural Changes in Poland Within the Last Seventy Years
- Playful Pleas(e): Formal and Functional Adaptations of English Please in Serbian
- Gustaf Peringer’s Karaim Biblical Material Revisited. A Linguistic Commentary on a Text Sample from 1691
- Yiddish Borrowings in American English: Slavic Connections
- Linguistic Trespassing: Observations on Multilingual Europe
- Why is He Who Tells the Truth Chased Out of Nine Villages: The Number Nine in Turkish Language and Culture
- English Cyber- Words Across European Languages
- Beliefs and Customs in the Phrasematics of the Podtatrze (Sub-Tatra) Region
- Graphic and Orthotypographic Aspects of Anglicisms in the Field of Sports
- Language Contact and Null Subjects: The Past Tense in Kashubian
- Slavic Languages in Contact, 3: The Methodological Importance of Balkan Slavic for Turkish Historical Dialectology, or Croatian and Serbian neimar, Bulgarian maimar(in) ‘Chief Architect’
- Indirect Language Contact and the Celtic Elements in Polish
- (I’m) Just Saying and (Tak) Tylko Mówię: A Parallel Corpus Study
- News on Instagram: The Use of the Social Medium by The Guardian and Gazeta Wyborcza
- Vowel Adaptation in English Words in Slovak
- Foreign Influences in Polish Dialectal Plant Names
- Hipsterskie fashionistki keżualowo drinkują na klabingu w Lądku… English Borrowings in Informal Polish and Their Lexical Fields
- On Maximality Modification in the Psych Domain: Evidence from Polish
- Formal Variance in Polish Adjectival Anglicisms
News on Instagram: The Use of the Social Medium by The Guardian and Gazeta Wyborcza
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 October 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld’s Publications
- Tabula gratulatoria
- Bilingual Learners’ Dictionaries in the Lexicographic Landscape
- Feel Free To… A Comparative Study of Phraseological Borrowing
- What’s in a Name? Does the Proliferation of Pejorative Terms Such as Denglis(c)h and Similar Items in German Attest to Neo-puristic Attitudes Towards Anglicisms?
- English in Confrontation with Languages and Cultural Heritage of Asian Countries: Promotion or Threat?
- Slavic Dirъ in the Arab-Muslim Geographical Literature
- Linguistic Landscapes: The Multilingual Cityscape of Kraków
- On Russenorsk -om in Particular and on Etymology and Creolistics in General
- Ponglish in the British Isles: A Few Sociolinguistic Remarks on the Issue
- Language Contact and Identity: Three Possible Scenarios
- European Echoes of English, South African Style?
- Open Spelling of Nominal Compounds in Contemporary Swedish and the Question of English Influence
- To -s or Not to -s? Plural Marking on Anglicisms in Spoken German
- Classification of Pseudo-anglicisms in Japanese
- Underdeterminacy, Indeterminacy and Speaker’s Intentions
- Globalisation and the Linguistic and Cultural Changes in Poland Within the Last Seventy Years
- Playful Pleas(e): Formal and Functional Adaptations of English Please in Serbian
- Gustaf Peringer’s Karaim Biblical Material Revisited. A Linguistic Commentary on a Text Sample from 1691
- Yiddish Borrowings in American English: Slavic Connections
- Linguistic Trespassing: Observations on Multilingual Europe
- Why is He Who Tells the Truth Chased Out of Nine Villages: The Number Nine in Turkish Language and Culture
- English Cyber- Words Across European Languages
- Beliefs and Customs in the Phrasematics of the Podtatrze (Sub-Tatra) Region
- Graphic and Orthotypographic Aspects of Anglicisms in the Field of Sports
- Language Contact and Null Subjects: The Past Tense in Kashubian
- Slavic Languages in Contact, 3: The Methodological Importance of Balkan Slavic for Turkish Historical Dialectology, or Croatian and Serbian neimar, Bulgarian maimar(in) ‘Chief Architect’
- Indirect Language Contact and the Celtic Elements in Polish
- (I’m) Just Saying and (Tak) Tylko Mówię: A Parallel Corpus Study
- News on Instagram: The Use of the Social Medium by The Guardian and Gazeta Wyborcza
- Vowel Adaptation in English Words in Slovak
- Foreign Influences in Polish Dialectal Plant Names
- Hipsterskie fashionistki keżualowo drinkują na klabingu w Lądku… English Borrowings in Informal Polish and Their Lexical Fields
- On Maximality Modification in the Psych Domain: Evidence from Polish
- Formal Variance in Polish Adjectival Anglicisms
Summary
Introduction
Journalism, news production and consumption practices have been heavily impacted by the rise and development of online technologies. New media and web applications have triggered an evolution of information dissemination routines, journalistic norms, as well as of news genres and news discourse practices (Kolodzy 2006; Knox 2007; Bednarek and Caple 2012).
In recent years, news broadcasting has been mainly influenced by two factors, i.e., a rise in the consumption of news through mobile devices (e.g., smartphones) and an increasing use of social media as news providing channels (Newman et al. 2019). Many media industry agencies have now started to employ applications available on mobile devices, such as Instagram, Snapchat or WhatsApp, and utilize the affordances offered by these technologies to disseminate information and engage with the audience.
The following paper focuses on the use of Instagram by newspaper agencies. Its aim is to offer a description of selected practices employed by two newspapers from the UK and from Poland: The Guardian and Gazeta Wyborcza. More specifically, the study investigates chosen aspects of the content and structure of the posts shared via the application, such as the themes most frequently covered in the posts, the type and function of the messages and selected discourse properties.
Instagram as a medium
Instagram, launched in 2010, is an online photo- and video-sharing social medium. The application allows users to create audiovisual content, take pictures or record videos and post them online. The users may share, tag, like or comment on the content posted in the medium (Carah and Shaul 2016; Filimonov et al. 2016).
Instagram belongs to the most popular social media, with nearly 1 billion monthly active users. It is mainly used by the younger generation – 60% of the users are between 18 and 34 years old. In the UK there are nearly 24 million users of Instagram, with around 33% of them between 25 and 34 years of age. In Poland, Instagram is less popular with about seven million users, most of whom are between 18 and 24 years old.
The medium has been shown to encourage one-to-many interaction, with a low degree of reciprocity.
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- Languages in Contact and ContrastA Festschrift for Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld on the Occasion of Her 70th Birthday, pp. 447 - 470Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2020