Opening up #jesuisCharlie anatomy of a Twitter discussion with mixed methods

Johansson, Marjut; Kyröläinen, Aki-Juhani; Ginter, Filip; Lehti, Lotta; Krizsán, Attila; Laippala, Veronika

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2018.03.007

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“…The event was followed by a Twitter conversation that received several millions of tweets worldwide. The reactions were, however, divided: there were expressions of solidarity and sympathy with the magazine and its victims, but also ironic and parodic comments (Johansson & al. 2018).…”

Section: Reactions To Crises and Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction

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Johansson

2020

PRAG

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This introduction to the Special Issue on Networked Emotion and Stancetaking summarizes the individual and collective contribution of the included five research articles. We argue for the relevance of discourse-pragmatic theories, methods, and concepts for furnishing cross-disciplinary perspectives into the study of emotion online. Such perspectives are arguably needed in order to clarify the intricate connections between (re)presentations of emotion online and changing practices of news-making and news consumption, story sharing and participation, and public stancetaking in social media and beyond. We propose that empirical analyses of networked practices of stancetaking – epistemic, affective, or narrative – can pinpoint the construction and dissemination of different types of participant positions and stances, including multimodal ones, as well as the creation and uptake of specific frames for interpreting events and crises affectively.

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Section: Reactions To Crises and Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction

Γιαξόγλου

Johansson

2020

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“…While the hashtag was spreading contagiously through social media, the 'Je Suis Charlie' image quickly turned into a meme -and one whose fundamental structure of meaning ('Je Suis') continues to be applied today to all manner of causes (BBC News, 2016). As demonstrated in the literature, the remarkable circulation of #jesuischarlie was due to its highly affective content, which the social media amplified and spread by virtue of their own imitative structure (Johansson et al, 2018). The hashtag not only served to constitute a global community of mourners and thus, create a social space through mimesis.…”

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Charlie Hebdo and the two sides of imitation

Brighi¹

2019

Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion

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In a 2009 paper, one of the neuroscientists instrumental to the discovery of 'mirror neurons', Vittorio Gallese, argued that there are always 'two sides' to mimesis-in and of itself mimesis is 'neither good nor bad', argued Gallese, as it can be declined in terms of both conflictual or social behavior. While the great majority of work on imitation, contagion and suggestion (ICS) have emphasized imitation as either a vector of the social or as the building block of our social ontology, René Girard's mimetic theory stands out as perhaps the approach most preoccupied with the ill effects of mimesis. Why is this so? Is Girard's position an excessively one-sided and negative take on imitation? Drawing on the example of the 2015 'Charlie Hebdo' terror attacks, in this chapter I argue, firstly, that imitation was central to both the violence perpetrated by attackers and the political and affective order that emerged around of the attacks. Thus, there is a fundamental ambivalence about the social and political workings of imitation. Secondly, I argue that behind Girard's negative view of imitation lies an unacknowledged concern about the power of suggestion, and in particular affective suggestion. In fact, behind Girard's growing concern about today's escalating mimetic crisis there is a specific concern about the global and mimetic escalation of affects.

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“…This seemed, on the face of it, a little surprising given solidarity's historical links with the workplace; Smith (2015), for example, considers the rise of the ideal of solidarity to be "intimately bound up with work", both in the mid-nineteenth century in France and with trade union Solidarnosc in the 1980s in Poland, where solidarity meant uniting to achieve the best conditions for workers. Instead, we found numerous articles where solidarity as expressed on Twitter was associated with political instability (Papacharissi & de Fatima Oliveira, 2012) such as the Arab Spring (Abul-Fottouh, 2018), the Maspero massacre (Bakry & Alkazemi, 2016), and the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices (De Cock & Pizarro Pedraza, 2018;Johansson et al, 2018).…”

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#Detkuhaværetmig

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Nielbo²,

Fage-Butler

2021

Conjunctions

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Healthcare professionals in Denmark used the hashtag #detkuhaværetmig [“it could have been me”] to express professional solidarity with a junior doctor who was initially declared negligent after oral instructions were not written down and followed up. This article explores how the functionalities of Twitter facilitated the expression and propagation of solidarity with a fellow medical professional. Our data consist of all #detkuhaværetmig tweets from August 2017–May 2019. Devising a mixed methods approach to analyse professional solidarity in tweets, we explore, amongst other things, who the tweeters were, when the hashtag was most frequently used, and the content of tweeted statements. Solidarity was expressed through the hashtag itself, tweeted statements and photos. The hashtag’s propagation potential was promoted by mentioning politicians and news media and including co-hashtags that linked to related concerns. Twitter, through the hashtag #detkuhaværetmig, became a vehicle for expressing and propagating professional solidarity.

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Opening up #jesuisCharlie anatomy of a Twitter discussion with mixed methods

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