Although the public regularly attempts to interact with reporters on Twitter, it is not clear to what extent reporters at various types of news outlets engage with citizens, politicians, and other users on the microblog. To find out, a content analysis was conducted on 4,500 tweets during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign from political reporters at TV networks/cable news, online-only news websites, and large newspapers. Findings indicate significant differences in Twitter interactivity by news outlet type, with TV political reporters most likely to interact with politicians and online-only political reporters most likely to interact with citizens. However, interactivity was generally low except with fellow journalists, which supports the normalization hypothesis.

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比较电视网络、纯在线新闻网站和报纸的政治记者在 Twitter 上的互动性

尽管公众经常尝试在 Twitter 上与记者互动，但尚不清楚各类新闻媒体的记者在微博上与公民、政治家和其他用户互动的程度。为了找出答案，我们对 2016 年美国总统竞选期间来自电视网络/有线电视新闻、纯在线新闻网站和大型报纸的政治记者的 4,500 条推文进行了内容分析。调查结果表明，不同新闻媒体类型在 Twitter 互动方面存在显着差异，电视政治记者最有可能与政客互动，而纯在线政治记者最有可能与公民互动。然而，除了与其他记者的互动外，互动性普遍较低，这支持了规范化假设。