Bachelor’s paper English in Twitter (ID:416572)

INTRODUCTION The development of technologies has made possible the emergence of a new type of mass media – social media. The noticeable growth of social media in recent years has had a tremendous impact on public consciousness and on the model of disseminating information both in the world and within a single society. In this regard, the concept of “consumer generated media” was gradually introduced into scientific circulation. This term describes the most important part of changes in the media sphere. Texts written not by journalists, but by those who are not directly involved in creating a mass information product, have become a full-fledged part of the information picture of the world [30, p. 299]. Today, Twitter is most often used to read news and statements, followed by discussions, the exchange of personal news etc. In this case, microblogs are not a competitor or replacement of blogs, as many researchers believe. This is, first and foremost, an addition to blogs that are designed to avoid burdening them with short posts. The frequency of updating the microblog is usually higher than that of regular blogs and, accordingly, the interactivity of the microblog is higher than that of the blog [14, p. 254]. A review of scientific literature on the test question, namely: the English language in Twitter (S. Johnson [50], G. Lakoff [52], J. Terzi [55], A. Sandre [55], K. Weller [58], A. Bruns [58], J. Burgess [58], B. Dubois [46], J. Golbeck [49], J. Grimes [49], A. Rogers [49] etc.) makes it possible to argue that in modern linguistics this problem is not given enough attention. The study of political Internet communication attracts researchers of different directions: political science, sociology, socio- and psycholinguistics. As for the linguistic research of new Internet genres, in particular Twitter, used in the field of politics, there are not so many scientific works on this topic that determine the relevance of the study.