Publicness on Platforms

Poell, Thomas; Rajagopalan, Sudha; Kavada, Anastasia

doi:10.4324/9781315193434-4

A Networked Self and Platforms, Stories, Connections 2018

DOI: 10.4324/9781315193434-4

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Publicness on Platforms

Thomas Poell¹,

Sudha Rajagopalan²,

Anastasia Kavada³

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Designing authoritarian deliberation: how social media platforms influence political talk in China

2019

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Discussion is often celebrated as a critical element of public opinion and political participation. Recently, scholars have suggested that the design and features of specific online platforms shape what is politically expressed online and how. Building on these findings and drawing on 112 semi-structured qualitative interviews with information and communications technology experts and Internet users, we explain how major Chinese social media differ in structure and in the company's motivation. Drawing upon a nationwide representative survey and an online experiment, we find that platforms aiming to make users a source of information through public, information-centered communication, such as the Twitter-like Weibo, are more conducive to political expression; while platforms built to optimize building social connections through private, user-centered communication, such as the WhatsApp and Facebook-like WeChat, tend to inhibit political expression. These technological design effects are stronger when users believe the authoritarian state tolerates discussion, but less important when political talk is sensitive. The findings contribute to the debate on the political consequences of the Internet by specifying technological and political conditions.

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Designing authoritarian deliberation: how social media platforms influence political talk in China

2019

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Live democracy and its tensions: making sense of livestreaming in the 15M and Occupy

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2019

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Drawing on one hundred interviews with activists, this article examines the relationship between livestreaming and the democratic cultures of the 15M and Occupy movements.The article investigates how the technical affordances of livestreaming -immediacy, rawness, liveness and embedded/embodied perspective -connect with the movements' understandings of how democracy should be practiced, specifically in terms of political equality, participation and transparency. Our findings identify four sources of tension in the relationship between livestreaming and democratic cultures. Firstly, the use of livestreaming was associated with a radical interpretation of transparency as near-total visibility, which gave rise to tensions around self-surveillance. Secondly, the information overload created through the practice of radical transparency was in tension with the movement's accountability processes. Thirdly, livestreamers attempted to offer an unvarnished access to truth by providing unedited and raw video from the streets. Yet their 2 embodied and subjective first-person perspective was associated with tensions around their power to shape the broadcast. Finally, while livestreaming was used to facilitate equal participation in the movement, participation through the livestream took the meaning of equal access to the experience of the squares, rather than equal power in the decisionmaking process. Our research reveals that despite the national particularities of the contexts in which they arose, Occupy and the 15M were extremely similar in their interpretations and practices of livestreaming and democracy.

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Distributed digital capital: digital literacies and everyday media practices

McGillivray

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2021

Media Practice and Education

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In this paper, we focus on young people's use of digital platforms, within the context of a 'live' digital media project. The study draws on Bourdieu's notion of social practices and explores unevenness in the possession of digital capital by young people. We use a live digital media project and draw on a (digital) participatory action research approach to explore the extent of distributed digital capital in evidence with a group of young people from disprivileged backgrounds and their creative use of digital platforms to enact strategies to alter their future prospects. We conclude that for those young people emerging from a challenging habitus, support mechanisms are a crucial element in building a bank of digital capital tradable in other areas of their lives. Communities of practice can support those without privilege to compete on a more level playing field with their privileged counterparts by opening up access to educational cultural capital.

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Publicness on Platforms

Cited by 6 publications

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Designing authoritarian deliberation: how social media platforms influence political talk in China

Designing authoritarian deliberation: how social media platforms influence political talk in China

Live democracy and its tensions: making sense of livestreaming in the 15M and Occupy

Distributed digital capital: digital literacies and everyday media practices

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