Couch Revisited: A Theoretical Treatment of The Information‐Technological Media of Imgur, Reddit, and Twitter

Julien, Chris

doi:10.1002/symb.403

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“…Such an analysis would be illuminating. Third, it would be worth studying the extent to which the negative emotion exhibited here was the result of the issue or the forum (Julien ; Lin and Tian 2018). Although there are many areas of the public sphere that are structurally similar to the relatively light moderation and anonymity of the YouTube comments section, others might be more tightly regulated.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Liminal Stigma and Disaligning Activity: Online Comments about Trump's Family Separation Policy

Silva

Flynn

2020

Symbolic Interaction

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In 2018, the Trump administration initiated a "zero-tolerance" border policy wherein they criminally prosecuted all individuals who were apprehended crossing the border without proper authorization. The policy change resulted in numerous migrant children being separated from their parents. Through a qualitative content analysis of 1500 YouTube comments made in response to CNN and ProPublica news coverage, we examine each side's aligning activity. Separation challengers claimed border crossers were innocent while condemning their opponents as racist, cruel, and otherwise shameful. Separation advocates bolstered their own claims of innocence by denying that the detainees are victims and condemning separation challengers as hypocrites, dishonest, complicit in illegal immigration, and generally loathsome. These findings show that, enabled by social media, aligning activity in stigma contests can produce a liminal stigma, where identities suffer the ideational aspects of stigma but not necessarily the loss of social status.

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Liminal Stigma and Disaligning Activity: Online Comments about Trump's Family Separation Policy

Silva

Flynn

2020

Symbolic Interaction

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“…Considering the relative permanence of content on Twitter [ 73 ], the pattern uncovered here remains disquieting. Unless removed by the individual or by the company, depreciatory messages can linger online indefinitely, continue to be retweeted, and promote the acceptance of public incivility, especially towards a minority, woman politician.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Debating stereotypes: Online reactions to the vice-presidential debate of 2020

2023

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The 2020 Vice-Presidential debate afforded the opportunity to examine online reactions toward a woman of color, Kamala Harris, and a white man, Mike Pence, as they vied for the same position. We collected tweets from the Twitter API related to Harris and Pence, mainly using neutral hashtags. We examined keywords for gender and race slurs and conducted a multivariate analysis of tweet sentiment. Gender and racial slurs surface in both Harris and Pence datasets, showcasing the insidious nature of sexist and racist stereotypes that seep into online conversations regarding a high-status job debate. As anticipated, tweets regarding Harris contained a higher proportion of racist and sexist curse words, highlighting greater levels of harassment and “intersectional,” multi-ethnic/gender attacks. Racial insults targeting Blacks or Asians were more negative than those associated with Whites. Unexpectedly, tweets related to Harris were more positive in average sentiment than those regarding Pence. Yet, there were significantly more retweets, and more negativity of retweets, relating to Harris than to Pence, underscoring the relatively widespread broadcasting of derogatory messages about Harris. Overall, we found that harassing messages toward the candidates reinforced traditional race and gender stereotypes and bolstered the status of those who posted negative content by attaining more retweets. Harassers routinely invoked well-worn, stereotypical insults in their attacks, especially when targeting a multiracial woman.

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“…However, moderation across the thousands of subreddits varies widely. While some subreddit moderators have written rules – for example, suggesting why users might ‘upvote’ or ‘downvote’ a particular post – such rules are not always enforced ( Julien, 2019 ). Distributed moderation will appeal to founders who wish to encourage heterogeneous virtual communities with their own rules and norms, but not to founders who prioritise centralised and standardised rules and norms across the platform.…”

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Relying on the engagement of others: A review of the governance choices facing social media platform start-ups

Reuber

Fischer

2021

International Small Business Journal

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We are grateful to Professors Rebecca Reuber and Eileen Fischer for contributing our 2022 annual review article. This insightful review explores an issue of great contemporary importance regarding the relationship between entrepreneurial activities and social media platforms. Whilst there is much popular and media commentary regarding the opportunities such platforms offer for entrepreneurship, we lack informed, academic reflection upon the role and influence of such platforms for both good and ill. Hence, this review article is timely in identifying current practices and raising important issues for future research. Our thanks to the authors for their valuable contribution to the ISBJ. Entrepreneurs create digital platforms which, in turn, facilitate entrepreneurial behaviours of others, the platform users. An important start-up activity is developing the mechanisms to govern user participation. While prior literature has provided insights on the governance of innovation platforms and exchange platforms, it has shed little light on the governance of social media platforms. In this review, we synthesize the emerging literature on diverse social media platforms, focussing on four types of governance mechanisms: those that regulate user behaviour, those related to user identification and stature, those that structure relationships among users and those that direct user attention. We highlight the implications of this body of literature for entrepreneurship scholars.

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Couch Revisited: A Theoretical Treatment of The Information‐Technological Media of Imgur, Reddit, and Twitter

Cited by 6 publications

References 39 publications

Liminal Stigma and Disaligning Activity: Online Comments about Trump's Family Separation Policy

Liminal Stigma and Disaligning Activity: Online Comments about Trump's Family Separation Policy

Debating stereotypes: Online reactions to the vice-presidential debate of 2020

Relying on the engagement of others: A review of the governance choices facing social media platform start-ups

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