Zur Genese von Diskurspositionen auf Twitter : eine quantitative Analyse von Twitter-Profilen im Schweizer COVID-19-Diskurs

Krasselt, Julia; Dreesen, Philipp

Publication type:	Conference other
Type of review:	Peer review (abstract)
Title:	Zur Genese von Diskurspositionen auf Twitter : eine quantitative Analyse von Twitter-Profilen im Schweizer COVID-19-Diskurs
Authors:	Krasselt, Julia Dreesen, Philipp
et. al:	No
Conference details:	Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), Sektion Medienlinguistik, Würzburg, Deutschland, 15.-17. September 2021
Issue Date:	15-Sep-2021
Language:	German
Subjects:	Social Media; Positionierung; COVID-19; Netzwerkanalyse; Korpuslinguistik; Modellierung
Subject (DDC):	401.4: Terminology, discourse analysis, pragmatics 614: Public health and prevention of disease
Abstract:	The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increased need for up-to-date information and, due to contact restrictions, a need for social interaction. These two requirements are met by Twitter, for example, where official actors announce infection numbers and these are communicated by professional and private actors in various degrees of interaction, e.g. in retweets with comments or in the form of replies. In Switzerland, for example, Twitter is used by the Federal Office of Public Health as a medium to draw attention to new information offerings and the new daily numbers of infections. Such posts lead to various forms of interaction. From a media linguistic perspective, it is relevant to understand how certain Twitter profiles become actors with specific discourse positions during the pandemic. It is assumed that a discourse position results both from the role-based communication behaviour of a Twitter profile itself and from the reactions and interactions of the other profiles. The results are part of the SNSF research project COVIDisc on Swiss COVID-19 discourses. The data is based on around 870,000 tweets (including retweets, comments and replies) posted by Swiss accounts between January and November 2020. To identify discourse positions, specific practices of the accounts were compared, among other things. Using network analysis with metadata and N-gram analyses of the microtexts of tweets, four clearly distinguishable positions can be identified: 1. acting adialogue actor profile (primarily FOPH); 2. reacting explanatory 'relay' actor profile (e.g. understanding-oriented processing of the infection figures); 3. interacting criticising actor profile in the Swiss discourse network (e.g. COVID-19 relativisation) and 4. interacting demanding actor profile in the international research-related discourse network (e.g. COVID-19 expert).
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29904
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	Applied Linguistics
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Language Competence (ILC)
Published as part of the ZHAW project:	Public COVID-19 pandemic discourses
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik

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Krasselt, J., & Dreesen, P. (2021, September 15). Zur Genese von Diskurspositionen auf Twitter : eine quantitative Analyse von Twitter-Profilen im Schweizer COVID-19-Diskurs. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), Sektion Medienlinguistik, Würzburg, Deutschland, 15.-17. September 2021.

Krasselt, J. and Dreesen, P. (2021) ‘Zur Genese von Diskurspositionen auf Twitter : eine quantitative Analyse von Twitter-Profilen im Schweizer COVID-19-Diskurs’, in Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), Sektion Medienlinguistik, Würzburg, Deutschland, 15.-17. September 2021.

J. Krasselt and P. Dreesen, “Zur Genese von Diskurspositionen auf Twitter : eine quantitative Analyse von Twitter-Profilen im Schweizer COVID-19-Diskurs,” in Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), Sektion Medienlinguistik, Würzburg, Deutschland, 15.-17. September 2021, Sep. 2021.

KRASSELT, Julia und Philipp DREESEN, 2021. Zur Genese von Diskurspositionen auf Twitter : eine quantitative Analyse von Twitter-Profilen im Schweizer COVID-19-Diskurs. In: Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), Sektion Medienlinguistik, Würzburg, Deutschland, 15.-17. September 2021. Conference presentation. 15 September 2021

Krasselt, Julia, and Philipp Dreesen. 2021. “Zur Genese von Diskurspositionen auf Twitter : eine quantitative Analyse von Twitter-Profilen im Schweizer COVID-19-Diskurs.” Conference presentation. In Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), Sektion Medienlinguistik, Würzburg, Deutschland, 15.-17. September 2021.

Krasselt, Julia, and Philipp Dreesen. “Zur Genese von Diskurspositionen auf Twitter : eine quantitative Analyse von Twitter-Profilen im Schweizer COVID-19-Diskurs.” Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), Sektion Medienlinguistik, Würzburg, Deutschland, 15.-17. September 2021, 2021.