“Tell the Story as You’d Tell It to Your Friends in a Pub”: Emotional Storytelling in Election Reporting by BuzzFeed News and Vice News

Dennis, James; Sampaio-Dias, Susana

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2021.1910541

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“…These moments force journalists to reflect and publicly negotiate their approach to emotion as part of their work. A growing body of empirical work also asserts that emotions are central to how journalists interview sources (Glück, 2016; Richards & Rees, 2011), develop storytelling approaches for conveying complex stories (Dennis & Sampaio-Dias, 2021; Rosas, 2018), or deal with challenging situations in conflict or crisis reporting (Šimunjak, 2022; Stupart, 2021).…”

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Challenging Journalistic Authority in the Networked Affective Dynamics of #Chemnitz

Makhashvili

Medeiros

Lünenborg

2022

Social Media + Society

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Journalism as an institution is increasingly under pressure in hybrid media systems. Various far-right actors use social media platforms as a key staging ground for contesting legacy media. Drawing on affect theory and discursive institutionalism, this article empirically examines how journalistic authority was challenged on Twitter during far-right riots in the German city of Chemnitz in 2018. Through these public and networked contestations, we see the emergence of “affective publics” that form around shared and competing emotions. Through social network analysis, we examine the networked polarization around #Chemnitz. By applying in-depth textual analysis, we then untangle how far-right actors attack legacy media by strategically mobilizing and performing outrage. Based on our findings, we propose to understand journalism as an affective institution, whose authority is perpetually contested as affective publics gain agency. Such an understanding involves a profound questioning of the notion of objectivity that has been constitutive of journalism in the 20th century.

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Challenging Journalistic Authority in the Networked Affective Dynamics of #Chemnitz

Makhashvili

Medeiros

Lünenborg

2022

Social Media + Society

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Feeling-Into the Civic Body: Affect, Emotions and Moods

Bakir

McStay

2022

Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods

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This chapter accounts for the energising role of affect, emotions and moods in circulating false information throughout the civic body. It starts by charting the trajectory of the role of feelings in understanding citizen-political communications. Their persuasive importance was recognised millennia ago and have been recognised anew in recent decades with the advent of neuroscience and the understanding that emotions are important for decisions and judgements. The chapter highlights three main mechanisms through which governments can try to manage public feeling and hence behaviour: discursive, decision-making based and datafied. It then considers the prevalent claim that we live in a post-truth condition (where appeals to emotion and personal belief are more influential in shaping public opinion than objective facts). While the relative importance of emotion and facts in everyday life is difficult to ascertain, the chapter demonstrates that the media from which people would normally derive their facts (namely, news media and social media) have become more emotionalised and affective, and suggests that we live in an informational environment that is sub-optimal for a healthy civic body. Finally, the chapter examines the challenges faced by governments in managing their population’s feelings during the COVID-19 pandemic where uncertainty, anxiety and false information proliferate.

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Exploring the influence of historical storytelling on cultural heritage tourists' value co-creation using tour guide interaction and authentic place as mediators

Leong,

Yeh,

Zhou

et al. 2024

Tourism Management Perspectives

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“Tell the Story as You’d Tell It to Your Friends in a Pub”: Emotional Storytelling in Election Reporting by BuzzFeed News and Vice News

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Challenging Journalistic Authority in the Networked Affective Dynamics of #Chemnitz

Challenging Journalistic Authority in the Networked Affective Dynamics of #Chemnitz

Feeling-Into the Civic Body: Affect, Emotions and Moods

Exploring the influence of historical storytelling on cultural heritage tourists' value co-creation using tour guide interaction and authentic place as mediators

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