Vad har Hänt på Tiktok? : en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av den moderna kändisjournalistiken
(2025) JOUK10 20242Journalism
- Abstract
- This study aims to analyze how genre conventions of celebrity journalism shift when taken to a new platform with new limitations, possibilities and media logics. Hänt, a Swedish newspaper covering entertainment and celebrity news, regularly produces material for the video based platform Tiktok. These videos, studied through qualitative content analysis and with theories regarding genre, celebrity status and social media logic, act as the essay’s source material. Previous research demonstrates that several decisions have to be made in order to best adapt content to the platform and its logics when mass media is brought to social media. This study shows that factors such as editing, news selection, target audience and the journalistic role... (More)
- This study aims to analyze how genre conventions of celebrity journalism shift when taken to a new platform with new limitations, possibilities and media logics. Hänt, a Swedish newspaper covering entertainment and celebrity news, regularly produces material for the video based platform Tiktok. These videos, studied through qualitative content analysis and with theories regarding genre, celebrity status and social media logic, act as the essay’s source material. Previous research demonstrates that several decisions have to be made in order to best adapt content to the platform and its logics when mass media is brought to social media. This study shows that factors such as editing, news selection, target audience and the journalistic role are affected in the adaptation. As a result, the platform specific alterations amount to a whole new set of genre conventions for the modern online celebrity journalism. (Less)
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- author
- Borgström, Wilma LU and Thillson, Alice LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- JOUK10 20242
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Genre, celebrity journalism, media logic, Hänt, platform adaptation, Tiktok
- language
- English
- id
- 9182885
- date added to LUP
- 2025-03-05 12:27:38
- date last changed
- 2025-03-05 12:27:38
@misc{9182885, abstract = {{This study aims to analyze how genre conventions of celebrity journalism shift when taken to a new platform with new limitations, possibilities and media logics. Hänt, a Swedish newspaper covering entertainment and celebrity news, regularly produces material for the video based platform Tiktok. These videos, studied through qualitative content analysis and with theories regarding genre, celebrity status and social media logic, act as the essay’s source material. Previous research demonstrates that several decisions have to be made in order to best adapt content to the platform and its logics when mass media is brought to social media. This study shows that factors such as editing, news selection, target audience and the journalistic role are affected in the adaptation. As a result, the platform specific alterations amount to a whole new set of genre conventions for the modern online celebrity journalism.}}, author = {{Borgström, Wilma and Thillson, Alice}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{Vad har Hänt på Tiktok? : en kvalitativ innehållsanalys av den moderna kändisjournalistiken}}, year = {{2025}}, }