Does Social Media Influence Conflict? Evidence from the 2012 Gaza Conflict

Zeitzoff, Thomas

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“…In recent years, transitional justice specific media outlets have also emerged, such as the platform JusticeInfo.net, which aims at reporting on topics related to international transitional justice. Academics have also expanded research on the links between new information technologies and conflict (Zeitzoff 2018). Initially, the Arab Spring was the focus of most of the studies examining this connection (Hänska Hay 2016), although now this relationship is approached from many different perspectives.…”

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Beyond reporting. Media agency in transitional justice processes

Berastegi¹

2020

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Despite the significant impact of the media in transitional justice processes, this relationship remains underexplored. The role of the media in building narratives of conflict and past human rights violations was traditionally framed within the dichotomy of promoting peace vs inflicting war. Yet, these roles, as well as the media systems themselves, need to be placed within more complex frameworks. This article analyses some of the key themes that connect transitional justice (the right to truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-repetition) and the media. The primary conclusion is that we need to go beyond the role of the media as an observer, and frame it as a possible agent of the overall process of conflict transformation and transitional justice.

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Beyond reporting. Media agency in transitional justice processes

Berastegi¹

2020

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“…To be specific, these days an overwhelming 90% of governments have active social media accounts 1 . Unsurprisingly, such drastic proliferation of governmental accounts on social media propelled a new strand of academic research focused on leaders' digital communication and diplomacy (Barberá and Zeitzoff 2017;Munger et al 2018;Zeitzoff 2018). From this new research agenda we know that political leaders use social media strategically to divert attention from domestic problems, bolster regime legitimacy, and suppress opposition (Barberá et al 2018;Gunitsky 2015;Pearce 2015).…”

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“…More recently, scholars started adopting the existing theories of political communication to the internet domain and investigate how political leaders use social media. While most studies explore leaders' online behavior within particular county context (Munger et al 2018;Zeitzoff 2018;Golbeck et al 2010;Grant et al 2010;Enli and Skogerbø 2013), a few others adopt a large-n approach (Barberá and Zeitzoff 2017;Bulovsky 2018;Barberá et al 2018). Existing research indicates that political leaders adopt social media strategically in response to domestic unrest and actively use it to divert attention from domestic problems (Barberá and Zeitzoff 2017).…”

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“…It might provide valuable insights into the leaders' respective agendas, strategies, and bargaining processes. For example, Zeitzoff (2018) shows that the leaders of Hamas and Israeli IDF engaged in a true "Twitter war" that brought the conflict to an unprecedented level of publicity. Direct Twitter interactions were used to shape the conflict narrative, demonstrate resolve, attract supporters abroad, and influence public opinion, thus, having direct impact on the conflict.…”

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Networks of Power: Analyzing World Leaders Interactions on Social Media

Iakhnis,

Badawy

2019

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World leaders have been increasingly using social media platforms as a tool for political communication. However, despite the growing research on governmental accounts on social media, virtually nothing is known about interactions among world leaders. Using a novel, cross-national dataset of Twitter communication for leaders of 193 countries for the period of 2012-2017, we construct retweet and mention networks to explore the patterns of leaders' communication. We use social network analysis to conclude that the leaders' interactions on social media closely resemble their interactions in the offline world. Besides, consistent with the democratic peace theory that underscores a special connection between democracies, we identify political regime as the main predictor of clustering between countries on Twitter. Finally, we explore the patterns of the leaders' centrality to identify features that determine which leaders occupy more central positions in the network. Our findings yield new insights on how social media is used by government actors, and have important implications for our understanding of the impact of new technologies on the new forms of diplomacy.

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“…Nos últimos anos, surgiram também meios de comunicação social específicos da justiça transitória, tais como a plataforma JusticeInfo.net, que visa a elaboração de relatórios sobre temas relacionados com a justiça transitória internacional. Os académicos também expandiram a investigação sobre as ligações entre as novas tecnologias da informação e os conflitos (Zeitzoff 2018). Inicialmente, a Primavera Árabe foi o foco da maioria dos estudos que examinavam esta ligação (Hänska Hay 2016), embora agora esta relação seja abordada de muitas perspetivas diferentes.…”

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Does Social Media Influence Conflict? Evidence from the 2012 Gaza Conflict

Cited by 6 publications

References 59 publications

Beyond reporting. Media agency in transitional justice processes

Beyond reporting. Media agency in transitional justice processes

Networks of Power: Analyzing World Leaders Interactions on Social Media

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