Listicle

Listicle referred to a specific short form of writing in the journalism or blogging: It has the appearance of an article that consists primarily of a list and mentioned this numerical listing in the title, such as " 10 places you should visit in 2014 ".

Listicle is a contraction of "list" and "article". The term is used partly condescending because of the rapid journalistic style. Listicles because of their compact overview sparse information reproduction with readers often very popular. Online media, which almost exclusively use Listicles and this form have made ​​them popular are: BuzzFeed and cracked.com. But Listicle is not a new phenomenon.

Types

A distinction is made between " Ranked" (qualitative sorting, eg Rolling Stone's " The 100 Best Albums of the Last Twenty Years "), " Thematic " (thematic sorting by the judgment of the author ) and " Random" ( the individual points are sorted in absolutely random order).