Uptake, polymorphism, and the construction of networked events on Twitter

Rathnayake, Chamil

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2020.101518

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“…Indeed, these digital footprints go well beyond merely reflecting on the gravity of media events. They are active engagements with the media ritual, rendered possible by the affordances of networked media platforms (Rathnayake, 2021; Valaskivi et al, 2022). That is to say, the eventness of media rituals is collaboratively created and amplified by means of the users’ communicative practices (Frosh and Pinchevski, 2018).…”

Section: Rituals Of Mass Media and Networked Mediamentioning

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“…In what follows, I first revisit theories of media rituals that are mostly related to television genres (Couldry, 2003; Dayan and Katz, 1992), but somehow remain relevant in this age of networked media (see Brügger, 2022; Frosh and Pinchevski, 2018; Rathnayake, 2021; Valaskivi et al, 2022). Following this, considering three key terms (temporality, performativity, and liminality), I illustrate networked media rituals that enable the processual formation of affective publics.…”

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Rethinking affective publics as media rituals through temporality, performativity and liminality

Ural

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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This article calls for a rethinking of the formation of affective publics as a ritual process. Given the particularities of networked media, I suggest that media rituals extend into the formation of affective publics celebrating imagined collectivities in a fashion of collaborative storytelling. This is a transitional process in which a collectivity is validated, affirmed and reinforced through ritual actions. To illustrate this dynamic, I suggest drawing upon three key concepts (namely temporality, performativity and liminality), which are derivatives of media rituals theory, but also shed light on the dynamics of affective publics. To specify, first, ritual temporality refers to ambient concentrations that create a breach in the ordinary flow of media texts. Second, performativity implicates the affect-driven rhythms of digital storytelling feeding algorithmic curations that form an embodied harmony between participants and a sense of collectivity. Third, liminality entails ambiguous situations that enable the formation of affective publics by means of voluntary commitment, anonymity and the uniformity of participants. These concepts are the key entry points in capturing the ritual aspects of affective publics. Viewed through this lens, scrutiny for the ritual dynamics of networked publics helps us to grasp the affective formations of networked media.

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2023

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Only public tweets posted by 67,356 distinct users were collected in this study. Twitter was used in this study because it is a preferred platform in the US for discussions, and it is easier to collect public messages from Twitter due to its relatively flexible API rules (Rathnayake, 2021). Each document contained only necessary attributes, including the user's name (e.g.…”

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How privacy concerns and cultural differences affect public opinion during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study

Xing

Wang

2021

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PurposeCOVID-19, an infectious disease first identified in China, has resulted in an ongoing pandemic all over the world. Most of the countries have been experiencing a difficult period during the fighting of this pandemic. The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of privacy concerns and cultural differences on public opinion related to the pandemic. The authors conducted a comparative analysis of public opinion in the US and in China as a case study, in order to determine the results.Design/methodology/approachNational policies on important issues faced during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US and in China were examined through a comparative analysis. The authors used text clustering and visualization to mine public opinion on two popular social media platforms, Twitter and Weibo. From the perspectives of concern for privacy and of national culture, this study combines qualitative and quantitative analysis to discover the acceptance level of national policies by the public in the two countries.FindingsThe anti-pandemic policies and measures of the US and China reflect the different characteristics of their respective political systems and national cultures. When considering the culture of the US, it is hard to establish and enforce a rigorous regulation on either mask wearing in public or home quarantine on the national level. The opinions of US people are diverse, regarding national COVID-19 policies, but they are rather unified on privacy issues. On the other hand, Chinese people show a high acceptance of national policies based on their mask-wearing customs and their culture of collectivism.Originality/valuePrior studies have paid insufficient attention to the ways in which user privacy and cultural difference affect public opinion on national policies between the US and China. This case study that compares public opinion on current and topical issues which are closely bound up with public life shows originality, as it innovatively provides a cross-cultural perspective on the research of public opinion dissemination during emergencies by considering the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…Since its first publication in 1992, Dayan and Katz's theoretical formulation has inspired a considerable amount of intellectual effort among media and communication studies scholars (Sumiala, 2013;Couldry & Hepp, 2018;Goldfarb, 2018;Rathnayake, 2021). Although it is a landmark study by many standards, Dayan and Katz's work has also drawn criticism.…”

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“…These studies conceptualise media events as ritual disruptions of social cohesion and polarising performances of non-belonging in society (Liebes, 1998;Nossek, 2008;Sumiala et al, 2018;Valaskivi et al, 2019; see also Katz & Liebes, 2007). Others have questioned the usefulness of media event theory in the current era of fragmented, globalised, and digitised communication (see Frosh & Pinchevski, 2018;Rathnayake, 2021). Some of this criticism has even been imposed by the authors of the theory themselves (Katz & Dayan, 2018).…”

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Ambivalent rituals of belonging: (Re)theorising hybrid, violent media events

Valaskivi

Sumiala

Tikka

2022

Nordic Journal of Media Studies

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The updating of media event theory for the digital age has been underway for some time, and several researchers have pointed out that the complexity of the hybrid media environment poses a challenge when it comes to understanding how media events in the present digital context ritually create belonging. In this article, we examine violent media events as hybrid phenomena and discuss their ritual workings in the present digital media environment. We apply what we call the 5 A’s – actors, affordances, attention, affect, and acceleration – as key analytical tools to empirically study such events. We also develop the concept of hybridity in relation to media events by proposing three auxiliary A’s: assemblage, amplification, and accumulation. Building on our earlier work, we call for more analytical consideration of the ambivalences in the ritual constructions of belonging (and non-belonging) in such violent events. We use the Christchurch massacre of 2019 as a case study to illustrate these conceptual developments.

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Uptake, polymorphism, and the construction of networked events on Twitter

Cited by 8 publications

References 41 publications

Rethinking affective publics as media rituals through temporality, performativity and liminality

Rethinking affective publics as media rituals through temporality, performativity and liminality

How privacy concerns and cultural differences affect public opinion during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study

Ambivalent rituals of belonging: (Re)theorising hybrid, violent media events

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