Networked Framing: Chinese Microbloggers’ Framing of the Political Discourse at the 2012 Democratic National Convention

Jiang, Min; Leeman, Richard; Fu, King‐Wa

doi:10.1080/08934215.2015.1098715

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“…Similarly, traditional framing theory focuses only on how news reports' portrayals of an issue influence audiences (Jiang, Leeman & Fu, 2016), without accounting for the role of audiences in framing construction. Framing theory claims that the way that news reports characterize an issue will influence how the audience understands that issue (Scheufele & Tewksbury, 2007).…”

Section: Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing on Twitter Protests in Mexico about the Ayotzinapa Case

Molina¹

2019

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This research focuses on a Twitter protest about the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014 known as the Ayotzinapa case which used the hashtag #PaseDeLista1al43. Social network analysis, interviews and thematic analyses of 3,616 tweets were conducted to investigate how networked gatekeeping and networked framing processes occurred within this networked public. Results show that on this digital protest, elite and non-elite Twitter users were in charge of gatekeeping activities, collaborating to maintain the discussion of the topic of the missing students. The analysis of frames revealed that the protest sought to: humanize the case emphasizing the life of the students; assign responsibility; and portray itself as a way to take an active role and coping emotionally with the disappearance. This works contributes to the literature on networked publics, combining network analysis with interviews to look beyond the digital footprint of the protest to listen to the perspectives of protesters, providing an insight into the dynamics of gatekeeping and framing within a network. Given the porosity, openness, and permanence of Twitter, results from such collaborative relationship of elite and non-elite voices to protest about an issue are now harder to ignore in the public sphere.

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Section: Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing on Twitter Protests in Mexico about the Ayotzinapa Case

Molina¹

2019

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“…Thus, narratives about the Ayotzinapa case in the #PaseDelista1al43 Twitter protests were articulated by "the networked interactions between elites and non-elites, supplemented by algorithmic aggregations" afforded by Twitter, which mainly included the use of hashtags (#PaseDelista1al43 and others) and retweets (Jiang et al, 2016, p. 97). As prior research has found (Jiang et al, 2016;Meraz & Papacharissi, 2012), in the case of this digital protest, framing setting and framing building in this network were not independent processes, because Twitter users were, at different points, both the audience and the authors of messages (Nip & Fu, 2017).…”

Section: Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framingmentioning

confidence: 83%

“…Similar to gatekeeping, with the proliferation of new media, framing theory has been increasingly perceived as inadequate, because it focuses only on how news reports' portrayals of an issue influence audiences (Jiang, Leeman, & Fu, 2016), without accounting for the role that audiences can now have in framing construction. Framing theory claims that the way that news reports characterize an issue will influence how the audience understands that issue (Scheufele & Tewksbury, 2007).…”

Section: Networked Publicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scholars are thus turning to consider a new form of framing, networked framing, "that relies on the interactions between elite and nonelite users and algorithmic aggregations afforded by new digital platforms" (Jiang, et al, 2016, p. 97). That is, this concept takes into account the relationship between elite actors and crowds to bring salience to issues (Meraz & Papacharissi, 2013), as well as the impact that algorithmic aggregations can have in bringing a frame to prominence (Jiang et al, 2016), for example, with hashtags or retweets. Refrains, in the form of retweets on Twitter, "augment the disruption introduced by a single tweet" through the constant repetition of the message (Meraz & Papacharissi, 2013, p. 155).…”

Section: Networked Publicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Two steps taken towards that goal were 1) identifying what type of Twitter users took part of the protests and 2) establishing the most popular users in the network according to the amount of retweets and favorites they got in tweets they created. First, following procedures from prior research (Jiang, et al, 2016;Xu, et al, 2014), I conducted a descriptive content analysis of the profiles of all Twitter users (N = 908) that tweeted with the hashtag #PaseDeLista1al43 during the five moments selected for analysis, by examining the information in each user's Twitter biography. Taking into account users' self-disclosure of affiliations and information in the biography section of their profile, each user was coded to establish the identity of the Twitter user.…”

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Contentious politics and social media : a study of the networked publics in the Ayotzinapa twitter protests #PaseDeLista1al43

Molina¹,

Araceli²

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This study analyzed the networked public that was emergent on Twitter based on analysis of the use of the hashtag #PaseDelista1al43 to protest the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico in 2014. As social media have expanded, practitioners of contentious politics have utilized these media for manifesting their claims and organizing. These #PaseDeLista1al43 Twitter protests are explored as a form of performing contentious politics. To address this phenomenon, this project took a mixed methods approach, combining social network analysis and thematic and content analysis of Twitter data and interviews. A total of 3,616 tweets from five different moments in the first two years of the #PaseDeLista1al43 Twitter protests were collected to examine their content, who their authors are, as well as the relationship between the people in the networked public. Additionally, interviews (N = 14) with participants of the #PaseDeLista1al43 Twitter protests were conducted to delve into protesters' perspectives on the demonstration. Results help elucidate how Twitter can be used to practice contentious politics and thus constitutes another resource in the repertoire for performing contentious politics. Additionally, this study aligns with other research that has identified Twitter as a place for the formation and expression of counterpublics that seek to challenge hegemonic narratives. Moreover, the analyses in this study strengthen our understanding of processes of networked gatekeeping and networked framing that occur within a networked public on Twitter. Unlike traditional processes of gatekeeping and framing, networked processes are supported by a symbiotic relationship between elite and non-elite Twitter users. Moreover, frames prevalent in the protest not only concerned facts about the case but also denoted efforts of the protesters to position themselves in the story of the Ayotzinapa case.

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Networked framing of GMO risks and discussion fragmentation on Chinese social media: a dynamic perspective

Cheng

2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been highly controversial in China and beyond. The burgeoning of social media has created an online activist field where participants utilize networked framing practices to engage in connective actions related to GMO risks. However, a dynamic perspective on the co-production of GMO risk discourses has yet to be fully explored, and it is still under debate whether such a collective interpretation is fragmented. To address this gap, this study investigates the risk-invoked GMO controversy by longitudinally exploring the structural characteristics and discursive power structures in the networked framing of GMO risks on social media. This study examines 356,227 GMO risk posts from 2010 to 2020 on the Chinese social media platform Weibo. A longitudinal social network analysis and computational text-mining approach are used to construct representation networks among participants based on their joint sponsorship framing practices of GMO risks. The findings suggest that there is a multipolar discussion fragmentation in the networked framing of GMO risks. However, the temporal evidence shows that the risk discussion has become increasingly interconnected and less structurally fragmented over time. In addition, this study highlights the unequal distribution of discursive power among participants; nevertheless, the analysis reveals that this inequality has shown signs of easing over the study period. Overall, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of the GMO controversy from a risk perspective and sheds light on the dynamics of networked framing practices and discursive power structures on social media.

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Networked Framing: Chinese Microbloggers’ Framing of the Political Discourse at the 2012 Democratic National Convention

Cited by 17 publications

References 10 publications

Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing on Twitter Protests in Mexico about the Ayotzinapa Case

Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing on Twitter Protests in Mexico about the Ayotzinapa Case

Contentious politics and social media : a study of the networked publics in the Ayotzinapa twitter protests #PaseDeLista1al43

Networked framing of GMO risks and discussion fragmentation on Chinese social media: a dynamic perspective

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