Ricerc@Sapienza

The paper aims to analyse the relationship between identity and
professionalism of journalists in the shift between news media and
personal accounts on social network sites. On the one side, in fact,
the correspondence between journalistic identity and journalistic
professionalism is clear; on the other side, this correspondence might
not be explicit. The paper presents a theoretical analysis on the main
critical issues raised by the use of SNs by journalists, and the results
of the two first steps of a qualitative research (survey and in-depth
interviews), which show that the value of responsibility in journalism acquires an increased centrality: it emerges as the main reference
for journalists in order to respect and enhance their role also in not
explicitly journalistic contexts.