Twitter as a Technology for Audiencing and Fandom

Highfield, Tim; Harrington, Stephen; Bruns, Axel

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2012.756053

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“…Where the Norwegian hashtags are both related to and created by recurring broadcast events, presumably drawing in a more mainstream audience, the dominance of far-right users in the #val2010 hashtag could be expected to render the hashtag almost as a parallel to political debate taking place elsewhere. Similar results akin almost to hashtag "takeovers" by extreme political groups have been reported also in the Australian #auspol hashtag Highfield et al, 2012), tentatively suggesting that these types of online foci could be the result of a strategy of marginalized ideological supporters. While it is difficult to make any strong claims regarding this based on the results presented here, such an approach at the hands of these types of groups would seem logical given their supposed limited access to traditional media outlets.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 65%

Everyday elites, citizens, or extremists? Assessing the use and users of non-election political hashtags

Larsson¹

2014

MedieKultur

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Everyday elites, citizens, or extremists? Assessing the use and users of non-election political hashtags

Larsson¹

2014

MedieKultur

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“…Whilst Facebook publicly records the number of 'likes' accumulated by a post on a fan page, the capturing of retweets may be limited by the configuration of the Twitter application programme interface (API) or limitations in the software used to gather the tweets (for a comprehensive review see Highfield et al, 2013). Indeed, our data corpus likely did not comprise all the tweets posted in the research period (c.f.…”

Section: The Research Design and The Independent Variablesmentioning

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The Social Media Overture of the Pan-European Stop-ACTA Protest: An Empirical Examination of Participatory Coordination in Connective Action

Mercea

2014

SSRN Journal

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Citation: Mercea, D. and Funk, A. (2014). The social media overture of the pan-European Stop-ACTA protest: An empirical examination of participatory coordination in connective action. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, doi: 10.1177/1354856514563663 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. In the current political climate marked by deep economic transformation, social upheaval is fast becoming a preferred avenue for voicing anger and opposition to austerity and the retrenchment of the welfare state (Castells, 2012). Recent instalments of street protests that have swept the European Union from Greece to France and Spain, Bulgaria to the UK have signalled a deep preoccupation of the European citizenry with social justice whilst also underscoring the centrality of horizontal digital media in sparking and fanning protest. Not least, protest has been directed at preserving the existing scope of digital media for unencumbered information and communication, as witnessed in the cross-national mobilisation against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (henceforth ACTA). With this article, we seek to investigate an ostensible process of participatory coordination with Facebook and Twitter, which were both used in the pan-European protests against ACTA. Permanent repository linkThe aim of this study is to conceptualize and evaluate the scope for two modes of coordination it identifies -motivational and resource coordination -by way of a mixedmethod study of data retrieved in the run-up to the last Europe-wide anti-ACTA demonstrations of 9 June 2012.Coordination with social media tools has been principally considered in relation to the accomplishment of collective activities (Bennett and Segerberg, 2012: 749;Bennett et al., 2014). Second, it has been discussed in reference to the formation of participant commitment to collective action (see Garrett, 2006;Juris, 2012; Valenzula, 2013). This article speaks to both interests by assaying the scope for the cooperative rather than organizationally orchestrated development of requisite motivations and resources for collective action through networked communication. Consequently, we set out to delineate and empirically verify the notion of participatory coordination. Below, we begin this work with a brief overview of the Stop ACTA movement followed by a review of the sources informing the research aim and hyponym objectives outlined at the end of the same section. (Bruns and Burgess, 2012;. Both platforms may be viewed as social infrastructures enabling, inter alia, the public display of highly individualized and personalized exchanges (Langlois et al., 2009;Poell, 2014 (2009: 417-19). At the same time, the two services leave distinct imprints on the public communication to which they are applied (Poell, 2014: 719). Twitter hashtags -key words or abbreviations preceded by the hash sign (#) -provide one pertinent illustration of these assertions. Hashtags...

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“…Tweets related to the politicians' answers, the media setting and looks, grammar and body language dominated the meta talk, and particularly tweets about politicians' answers appear to be expressions of "fandom" (Highfield et al, 2013) -more specifically "political fandom". Even though this study did not examine the Twitter users' political background or which politician received most or least support and criticism, recent studies (Elmer, 2012, Chadwick, 2011 have demonstrated how political campaigns mobilize and encourage supporters to participate on Twitter during political TV events.…”

Section: Political Fandom and Media Criticism On Twittermentioning

confidence: 99%

Social media as a political backchannel

Kalsnes

Krumsvik

Storsul

2014

Aslib Journal of Information Management

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how Twitter is used as a political backchannel and potential agenda setter during two televised political debates during the Norwegian election in 2011. The paper engages with current debates about the role of social media in audience participation and traditional media's changing role as gatekeepers and agenda setter. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. By introducing and using the IMSC multiple step analysis model on the Twitter datasets, the authors are able to analyse the flow of thousands of tweets and compare them with topics discussed in the televised debates. Findings – The paper finds that the same topics are discussed on Twitter as on TV, but “the debate about the debate” or Meta talk tweets reveal critical scrutiny of the agenda. The paper identifies a clear pattern of political fandom and media criticism in the “debate about the debate”, indicating that Meta talk in social media can function as a critical public sphere, also in real time, which has not been identified in existing studies of Twitter and political TV shows. Originality/value – The analysis is unique in the sense that the paper analyses a smaller, national Twitter population in deeper detail than what is common in larger Twitter studies related to political televised debates. The IMSC model can be used in future Twitter studies to uncover layers in the data material and structure the findings.

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Twitter as a Technology for Audiencing and Fandom

Cited by 204 publications

References 15 publications

Everyday elites, citizens, or extremists? Assessing the use and users of non-election political hashtags

Everyday elites, citizens, or extremists? Assessing the use and users of non-election political hashtags

The Social Media Overture of the Pan-European Stop-ACTA Protest: An Empirical Examination of Participatory Coordination in Connective Action

Social media as a political backchannel

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