@realDonaldTrump: political celebrity, authenticity, and para-social engagement on Twitter

McDonnell, Andrea; Wheeler, Mark

doi:10.1080/19392397.2019.1630157

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“…To answer RQ1, account and communication strategies were analyzed-most findings are consistent with most previous studies. For example, the way how Twitter accounts used strategies such as hashtags, mentions, URLs, pictures, or videos in their tweets to attract other users (McDonnell & Wheeler, 2019). In short, the account @UAWeapons utilized hashtags and videos extensively in order to increase its popularity.…”

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“…Despite these findings, we also found some similarities with previous research. The social bot utilizes similar strategies to extend its reach, as previous studies have shown, including hashtags, mentions, pictures, and videos in tweets (McDonnell & Wheeler, 2019). Moreover, retweets are more likely to extend reach than follows in terms of communication outcomes, demonstrating the existence of repost storms (Samanci & Thulin, 2022).…”

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Influence of social bots in information warfare: A case study on @UAWeapons Twitter account in the context of Russia–Ukraine conflict

Liu

et al. 2023

Communication and the Public

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During the Russia–Ukraine conflict, social media has become an outlet for public opinion; therefore, besides the hot war, information warfare is also taking place. It was discovered that a large number of new social bot accounts had emerged on Twitter since the outbreak of the conflict. In particular, the Twitter account @UAWeapons has grown its following by hundreds of thousands in fewer than 30 days and has established itself as an influential opinion leader. Through data mining and three different analysis methods, this study investigated how social bots grew to influence public opinion. Specifically, time-series analysis revealed an unusual pattern of “pulsing” changes in the number of tweets posted by @UAWeapons over time. The content analysis illustrated that the account posted biased tweets in favor of Ukraine under the guise of being a neutral messenger, which led to frequent retweets from social bots with similar opinions. Finally, the results of the social network analysis indicated that @UAWeapons’ rapid growth might be attributed to a strategy of network clustering implemented by a core group of social bot accounts.

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Influence of social bots in information warfare: A case study on @UAWeapons Twitter account in the context of Russia–Ukraine conflict

Liu

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Communication and the Public

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“…When individuals were misunderstood or attacked by scandals and lose the supply of social demand, people will turn to Internet multimedia applications through the Internet to divert their attention or find the feeling of concern (Hu, Zhang, & Wang, 2017). When Internet celebrity fans watch online celebrities' short films, articles or works, the more times they will gradually feel intimate with the Internet celebrities, and subjectively regard the Internet celebrities as their close friends, but in fact, the Internet celebrities will not know all of the fan (Kim, Ko, & Kim, 2015;McDonnell & Wheeler, 2019). Therefore, para-social interaction can also be regarded as a strategy to guide the audience through the media and establish a virtual unequal relationship.…”

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The Study of Para-Social Interaction With E-Word-of-Mouth for Influencer Marketing by Complex Computing

Yuan

Yeh

et al. 2021

Journal of Organizational and End User Computing

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The purpose of this study was focused on exploring the relationship among the fans’ preferences, fans’ para-social interaction, and fans’ word-of-mouth. A survey consisted of 21 items based on the literature review and developed by this study. An online survey was distributed to the users of YouTube in Taiwan. A total of 606 valid samples was collected by survey. The instrument passed the reliability and validity test. Further, the data process applied the PLS (partial least squares) regression analysis methodology. The result shows that the ‘attractive’ impacted ‘para-social interaction’, ‘e-word-of-mouth’, and ‘preferences of fans’ positively. In addition, the para-social interaction plays an important role as a mediator between influencer’s attractiveness, w-word-of-mouth, and preferences of fans. Some suggestions were provided for social media influence’ related studies as reference.

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“…Yet another additional lens that media studies research could more fully add to this picture is the interrogation of the celebrity and stardom that bubbles just beneath the surface of many of these discussions of ubiquity but is largely absent from the book. As candidates and presidents alike, both Obama and Trump were subject to criticism of being too much like a celebrity to be presidential, it is unavoidably linked to their ubiquity (Kellner 2009; McDonnell and Wheeler 2019). Trump's calling into news programs, Obama's NCAA bracketology, even Bill Clinton's saxophone playing on Arsenio Hall—each of these works within the framework of the book, and I repeatedly found myself wondering what role charisma, perceptions of authenticity, and our cultural fondness for celebrity played in the questions of ubiquity.…”

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Book Review: The ubiquitous presidency: Presidential communication and digital democracy in tumultuous times by Joshua M. Scacco & Kevin Coe

Baldwin-Philippi

2022

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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s The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times presents a wellhistoricized account of how the office of the U.S. presidency and those who have held it since the 1980s have attempted to gain, shift, and navigate attention under changing technological conditions and a changing relationship between audience and speaker.The authors' framework of the overarching contexts of any ubiquitous presidency (personalization, accessibility, and pluralism) and the particular goals of any presidency in a ubiquitous era (visibility, adaptation, and control) will continue to be useful as the conditions of ubiquity dominate the coming presidencies. While this book certainly influences the study of the presidency and presidential address, it also, thankfully, offers a broader approach that illuminates elements of digital political communication in a wider arena. As the authors argue in their conclusion, it can be extrapolated to better investigate and understand political elites outside of the particular office of the U.S. Presidency. Although the authors give examples of national leaders across a range of countries, I was struck by the potential usefulness of this lens to explore lower-level national office holders in the United States (senators and highprofile members of congress) whose campaigns and administrations have recently harnessed or made use of the conditions of ubiquity.As Coe and Scacco trace the past 30 years of the presidency and shifts in media attention and use by presidents, the historical development of ubiquity is where this book truly shines. By untangling ubiquity from the digital contexts in which we often see the term deployed, Scacco and Coe's intervention of studying spaces that garner public attention that does not always get defined as "news" and are often not considered political, including The Hollywood Reporter, Consumer Reports, who a president grants a medal of freedom, sports programs, and entertainment programmings like appearances on late-shows or MTV. Impressively, throughout the book, Book Review

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@realDonaldTrump: political celebrity, authenticity, and para-social engagement on Twitter

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

Influence of social bots in information warfare: A case study on @UAWeapons Twitter account in the context of Russia–Ukraine conflict

Influence of social bots in information warfare: A case study on @UAWeapons Twitter account in the context of Russia–Ukraine conflict

The Study of Para-Social Interaction With E-Word-of-Mouth for Influencer Marketing by Complex Computing

Book Review: The ubiquitous presidency: Presidential communication and digital democracy in tumultuous times by Joshua M. Scacco & Kevin Coe

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