Traditionally, journalists were expected to rely primarily on institutional and official sources of
information for their work. However, this practice has shifted, at least to some extent, since
2006. This master’s thesis explores the influence of the increasing use of Twitter by Slovenian
politicians on the reporting of Slovenian journalists between 2013 and 2016. Using the
NoSketchEngine software, we first created a subcorpus of Janes TwePo, drawn from the Janes
corpus (the corpus of online Slovene), which includes just over 72,000 tweets by 78 Slovenian
politicians. The analysis focused on the linguistic standardness of the tweets, sentiment, and
keyword usage. We also compared the results based on gender, political office, and ideological
positioning of the politicians who authored the tweets.The results confirmed, among other
findings, a high level of consistency in the use of standard Slovene and a predominantly neutral
sentiment across the tweets. In the second part of the analysis, we examined how tweets were
referenced in journalistic texts. This was initially conducted on a sample of articles published
by MMC RTV Slovenija and Požareport during the period 2014–2016, followed by a more
focused comparison of how these two media outlets referenced tweets by Janez Janša and
Alenka Bratušek. The findings show that the number of tweet references on MMC RTV
Slovenija increased over time, while on Požareport they remained steady. Journalists more
frequently included tweets by Janez Janša than those by Alenka Bratušek.
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