Understanding the affective investment produced through commenting on Australian alternative journalism website<i>New Matilda</i>

Barnes, Renée

doi:10.1177/1461444813511039

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“…News texts may, and often do, function as a starting point or stimulus to community discussion and debate (Jenkins, Ford, & Green, ; Sjöberg, ). Moreover, journalist‐produced content and user comments, as demonstrated by Barnes (), can be seen as integral parts of the overall story that shapes the audience perception of crisis events.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disentangling rhetorical subarenas of public health crisis communication: A study of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in the news media and social media in Sweden

Rodin

Ghersetti

Odén

2018

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Drawing on rhetorical arena theory, this study investigates the variations of content across communication channels (subarenas), guided by different media logics, during the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak. Restricting the study to one country, Sweden, a content analysis was conducted of two national newspapers (in total 848 articles), their posts on branded Facebook pages (47) and user comments on these Facebook posts (1,661). Some conclusions to be made are, that content differed between subarenas, with Facebook news being more sensational and focused on human interest stories, and Facebook comments to a greater extent related to other current socio‐political issues. Also, news media were more alarmist than Facebook comments, although alarmism declined on all subarenas as the danger became more tangible.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disentangling rhetorical subarenas of public health crisis communication: A study of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in the news media and social media in Sweden

Rodin

Ghersetti

Odén

2018

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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“…On a variety of web systems, including social networking sites (e.g., Facebook), video-sharing sites (e.g., YouTube), online news websites, and review-based commercial websites (e.g., Amazon), users are encouraged to leave comments on the messages generated by web pages' proprietors or other users (Barnes, 2015). Such contribution of nonproprietary users is known to exert attitudinal and perceptual influence on viewers.…”

Section: Categorical Cues Embedded In Users' Comments and Ingroup Infmentioning

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Self-categorization of users’ comments and ingroup influence: The moderating role of context-dependent ingroup identification

Jang¹,

Walther²

2019

Cyberpsychology

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A web-based experiment (N = 184) examined whether social identity cues embedded in users’ comments elicit ingroup bias. Participants viewed a mock Yelp.com webpage that displayed information about a local business together with four users’ comments. Consistent with self-categorization theory, viewers adopted their ingroup’s comments, but only when they identified highly with their ingroup. Further, a central message that was juxtaposed with users’ comments and shaped their focus, determined the degree of ingroup identification; viewers were more likely to identify with their ingroup when the central message dealt with an outgroup-typed (vs. ingroup-typed) topic. Finally, although an outgroup-typed central message elicited stereotypical beliefs of the outgroup’s expertise, such beliefs failed to predict viewers’ attitudes, thus lending support to the ingroup identification explanation.

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“…(1) New Matilda, an Australian independent online news and analysis website with content that focuses on Australian and international politics, and social justice issues (see Barnes [2013] for full case study).…”

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“…It will argue that drawing on these theories enables a broader understanding of participation, which does not privilege participation that involves active contributions, but is inclusive of audience members who "internalise" their participation (Barnes, 2013) and will use the data presented in the case studies as a basis for a broader framework for understanding participation.…”

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“…Van Dijck (2009) suggests only one in a hundred people will be active online content producers, with 10 "interacting" by commenting, and the remaining 89 simply viewing. Therefore, a focus on "produsage" or those who are leaving an active contribution on a news website fails to properly conceive of the audience (Barnes, 2013). "In our embrace of the produser, we should not lose sight of the more mundane, internalised, even passive articulation with media that characterizes a great deal of media consumption" (Bird 2011, 504).…”

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The “ecology of participation”

Barnes

2013

Digital Journalism

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This paper investigates how audience members are using "alternative journalism" websites. Based on case studies of four "alternative journalism" sites, two based in Australia and two based in the United States, it examines how and why the audience uses these sites. Traditionally research into journalism and, in particular, "alternative journalism" has focused on the civic role of journalism. However, to consider the individual audience member's engagement with the site, an approach similar to that which has typically been associated with fan studies is more useful. Using this fan theory, the paper focuses on the role of personal satisfaction and emotional engagement, as central factors in participation on alternative journalism websites, which does not privilege participation that involves active contributions, but is inclusive of audience members who "internalise" their participation.

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Understanding the affective investment produced through commenting on Australian alternative journalism websiteNew Matilda

Cited by 48 publications

References 26 publications

Disentangling rhetorical subarenas of public health crisis communication: A study of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in the news media and social media in Sweden

Disentangling rhetorical subarenas of public health crisis communication: A study of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in the news media and social media in Sweden

Self-categorization of users’ comments and ingroup influence: The moderating role of context-dependent ingroup identification

The “ecology of participation”

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