Social Influence in Televised Election Debates: A Potential Distortion of Democracy

Davis, Colin J.; Bowers, Jeffrey S.; Memon, Amina

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018154

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“…The method has been criticised due to small viewer samples [16] and because it can affect independent judgement if shown during broadcasts [9]. Twitter sentiment analysis has been used to map the changing mood of tweets during political media events [1,18].…”

Section: Citizen Participation and Collective Intelligencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Engaging Citizens with Televised Election Debates through Online Interactive Replays

Plüss

Liddo

2015

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video

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Section: Citizen Participation and Collective Intelligencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…end prototype, built as a grid of widgets using gridster.js 9 and YouTube's JavaScript Player API 10 . We are building the back end to serve contents to D3.js visualisations.…”

Section: Platform Overview and Front End Prototypementioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging Citizens with Televised Election Debates through Online Interactive Replays

Plüss

Liddo

2015

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video

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“…However, poll results may exert a social influence on debate viewers' opinions (C. J. Davis, Bowers, & Memon, 2011). We considered the poll results a true ''extra'' source of information that was in addition to what the candidates and moderator were discussing.…”

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Tweets, Polls, and Quotes: Gatekeeping and Bias in On-Screen Visuals During the Final 2012 Presidential Debate

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Allen

2015

Communication Studies

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This study content analyzed the on-screen visuals (i.e., candidate quotes, live Twitter feed, and poll results) displayed during the final presidential debate on the ABC News=Yahoo News live-streaming online coverage. Gatekeeping and research on political campaign coverage were used to provide rationale about the nature of the on-screen visuals. Results largely confirmed previous research into presidential campaign coverage: The on-screen visuals revealed a reliance on elite sources (media-related professionals and public figures), the on-screen visuals were largely neutral in nature for the candidates (although there was a slight pro-Obama advantage in the tweets and a slight pro-Romney advantage in the quoted material shown on-screen), and the on-screen visuals focused on horserace, strategy, and image at the expense of issue and policy discussion.Debates are a key element during presidential campaigns and are oftentimes the climax of a campaign that has spanned several years. Debates also attract millions upon millions of television viewers. The 2012 presidential debates were no different; the first debate reached an approximate 67.2 million viewers (Nielsen, 2012a), the second debate saw viewership drop slightly with 65.6 million viewers (Nielsen,

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“…A second reason is that the worm simply asks people to indicate which performances they nd most convincing, without any reference to why that might be so. These methodological shortcomings, coupled with evidence that the worm may prevent people from making independent judgements when superimposed on live broadcast [6] raise serious concerns.…”

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A Novel Method to Gauge Audience Engagement with Televised Election Debates through Instant, Nuanced Feedback Elicitation

Liddo

Plüss

Wilson

2017

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies

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Despite a steep increase in the use of the Internet and handheld computing devices for media consumption, television is still of critical importance for democratic citizenship. Television continues to be the leading source of political information and its relevance has been recognised at policy level. In addition, television keeps evolving technologically and in how it is experienced by viewers. Nonetheless, the ways researchers have measured audience engagement with televised political events in real-time is often limited to small samples of viewers and is based upon a narrow range of responses.In this paper we look at the audience of televised election debates, and propose a new method to gauge the richness and variety of citizens' real-time responses at scale by capturing nuanced, nonintrusive, simple and measurable audience feedback. We report on a paper prototype experiment, in which we used a set of ashcards to test the method in an actual televised election debate scenario. We demonstrate how the method can improve our understanding of viewer responses to the debaters' performances, to the contents in their arguments, and to the debate as media event. We conclude with design guidelines to implement the method on a mass scale in order to measure audience engagement with televised election debates in distributed contexts through audience feedback web and mobile applications.

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Social Influence in Televised Election Debates: A Potential Distortion of Democracy

Cited by 27 publications

References 24 publications

Engaging Citizens with Televised Election Debates through Online Interactive Replays

Engaging Citizens with Televised Election Debates through Online Interactive Replays

Tweets, Polls, and Quotes: Gatekeeping and Bias in On-Screen Visuals During the Final 2012 Presidential Debate

A Novel Method to Gauge Audience Engagement with Televised Election Debates through Instant, Nuanced Feedback Elicitation

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