Changing Deliberative Norms on News Organizations' Facebook Sites

Stroud, Natalie Jomini; Scacco, Joshua M.; Muddiman, Ashley; Curry, Alexander L.

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“…In a fluid space, normality is not static nor monolithic. That is, despite there having been some discussion on social norms on SNS (Papacharissi, 2009;Fox and Anderegg, 2014;Stroud et al, 2015), norms alone do not represent nor solely make up normality. In addition to norms, normality is conceived of as pertaining to values, beliefs and patterns of behavior that dominate a social system by being adopted by its members (Rabikowska, 2010).…”

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Constructing and enacting normality online across generations

Panteli

Marder

2017

ITP

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PurposeThe paper examines how different age groups construct and enact normality within social networking sites (SNS) and consequently aims to extend theory in the area of online interactions. Design/methodology/approachThe chosen research site was Facebook and the research design involved focus groups across three different age groups: teenagers, young adults and the middle-aged. In total there were 78 participants. The focus groups explored metaphoric images of Facebook interactions. In doing so, participants were asked to draw a picture to represent their metaphor and following this, to position themselves and other characters within the picture. The drawings as well facilitators' records provided the main dataset for the study. FindingsConnective and protective encounters were found to be used by different age groups when constructing and enacting normality on SNS. Further, it emerged that the interpretation and enactment of normality across the different age groups significantly varied. The metaphorical images have transpired as being a resourceful way of unpacking these differences. Research limitations/implicationsThe study relied on focus groups in order to capture metaphorical images across generations.It did not include interviews with individual participants to elicit the extent to which they 2 agreed with the group metaphor or whether there was anything else they might have presented in the drawings. This could be on the agenda for future research. Practical implicationsThe findings of the study suggest that SNS managers and designers should sympathise with the view that users of different ages engage in different ways with SNS and as a result user interfaces should be customized according to the age of the user. Originality/valueThis is the first study in which the concept of normality has been adopted as a theoretical lens for understanding interactions on SNS. Further, this work adds to the limited body of research on SNS use across different generations whilst it expands on the range of methodologies used within the IS field.

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Constructing and enacting normality online across generations

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Marder

2017

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“…The demand for new stories has altered the traditional way to obtain and display information. The perception and desire of users for real-time updates have encouraged journalists to develop their roles in such cases (Stroud et al, 2015). One of the greatest benefits of SNSs for journalists is the ability to deal with huge audiences worldwide.…”

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“…In the past few years, extensive arguments on the value and credibility of news generated by SNSs have been echoed by many Arab nations (Armbrust, 2012;Hermida et al, 2014;Meeds, 2015). Advocates of SNSs claimed that SNS is an open source for information that provides the audience with multiple components with the realities without falsification of truth and facts (Moody, 2011;Stroud et al, 2015). Nevertheless, there are progressive proponents that believe that the new media like the SNS helps to spread rumors and lies because the news often does not explain the source of the news, and do not care much about the elements of credibility.…”

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Journal of New Media and Mass Communication

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“…Papacharissi 2004) or, contrarily, the radicalization of public debates via moralization, elements of scandalization (Imhof 2014) or even incivility, flaming and hate speech (cf. Sobieraj and Berry 2011;Friemel and Dötsch 2015;Stroud et al 2015;Suhay et al 2015). The latter tendency is generally discussed for virtual online communication, often attributed to the possibilities and dysfunctions of anonymous communication (Averbeck-Lietz 2014).…”

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Moralizing and Deliberating in Financial Blogging. Moral Debates in Blog Communication During the Financial Crisis 2008

Venema

Averbeck-Lietz

2017

Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research

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The public engagement with the financial crisis sparked in 2008 is a process of (re)discussing, (re)negotiating and communicatively (re)constructing norms, values and ethics. Several studies show that debates on causes and solutions are often related to explicit and implicit references to norms and values. However, the concrete way in which norms and values are communicatively constructed is mostly neglected in research. Integrating approaches of deliberation and moralization research, the chapter provides a detailed discussion of moral debates, communicative practices and mechanisms of constructions of norms and values in financial blog communication. The findings reveal two central aspects: First, the actors’ engagement with the crisis is not limited to the financial crisis itself but also deals with norms of public communication. Second, they show the interplay of commingled practices of moralizing and deliberating. The chapter underlines that research on (moral) public debates requires the consideration of both moralization and deliberation as crucial concepts for a comprehensive analysis of public social negotiations and their dynamics of interaction.

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Changing Deliberative Norms on News Organizations' Facebook Sites

Cited by 239 publications

References 44 publications

Constructing and enacting normality online across generations

Constructing and enacting normality online across generations

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