What Happened to the Public Sphere? The Networked Public Sphere and Public Opinion Formation

Kaiser, Jonas; Fähnrich, Birte; Rhomberg, Markus; Filzmaier, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06091-0_31-1

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“…This process of radicalization can be traced back to online communication and counterpublics (Kaiser & Rauchfleisch, 2019). A counterpublic is a specific form of networked public sphere that is structured around a polarizing issue opposed to the dominant hegemony, marginalized, and/or excluded from the dominant public discourse, and in possession of its own influential media outlets (i.e., alternative media; Kaiser, 2017). Here, alternative media “represent a proclaimed and/or (self-) perceived corrective, opposing the overall tendency of public discourse emanating from what is perceived as the dominant mainstream media in a given system” (Holt et al, 2019, p. 862).…”

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German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis

Zehring

Domahidi

2023

Social Media + Society

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The Querdenken movement, the leading force behind German corona protests, is suspected of being a gateway to far-right attitudes due to radicalizing inward-oriented communication on Telegram. To investigate potential connections of this movement to the far right and alternative media—and to explore key topics of the Querdenken network over time—we analyzed 6,294,955 messages from 578 public Telegram channels via network analysis and structural topic modeling. This analysis revealed that Querdenken’s subcommunities preferably forward content from far-right and QAnon communities, while far-right and conspiracy theorist alternative media channels act as content distributors for the movement. Four main topics appeared in the Querdenken network with varying prevalence over time and across different communities: promotion, QAnon, right-wing populism, and COVID-19 conspiracy theories. Our results highlight potential directions for future research and practical implications, for example, that political decision makers should account for the increasing influence of the QAnon movement on Querdenken mobilizers’ Telegram activity.

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German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis

Zehring

Domahidi

2023

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“…Do ponto de vista empírico, dois casos substancialmente diferentes de campanhas pelas mídias sociais demarcam a literatura: a eleição de Obama, em 2008, e a eleição de Trump, em 2016. Enquanto a primeira campanha caracterizou-se pelo alargamento do debate e da participação política, a partir da criação da rede MyBO ("My Barack Obama") e do engajamento orgânico (Gomes et al, 2009), a segunda campanha baseou-se em uma estratégia de comunicação mais centralizadora, que reunia análise de big data, microtargeting 9 , chatterbots 10 e propagação de desinformações (Kaiser et al, 2017;Boczkowski;Papacharissi, 2018).…”

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Comunicação política no ambiente digital: uma análise das campanhas eleitorais municipais de 2020 no Facebook

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Neste artigo, analisamos as campanhas oficiais dos(as) candidatos(as) às prefeituras de todas as capitais brasileiras, em 2020, no Facebook. A partir de técnicas de estatística descritiva e da análise de enquadramentos, observamos os atores e narrativas com melhor desempenho na rede e suas principais características, como posicionamento no espectro político, enquadramentos, alinhamentos e recursos comunicacionais. Os resultados mostram a reação da esquerda na rede após as eleições de 2018, liderada por páginas de partidos pequenos, que usaram a plataforma principalmente para discutir conjuntura e questões identitárias. Contudo, mantiveram-se como tendência as práticas de campanha negativa e o agendamento de temas de apelo subjetivo, como família e religião, sobretudo entre as páginas apoiadoras de Bolsonaro, político mais referenciado durante o pleito.

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“…In order to meet this challenge, I suggest combining the theory of the public sphere, SNA, and -as a third and new component -modes of interaction as buil ding blocks for a theory of the dynamic networked public sphere. Such a systematization of interactions is missing in the discussion of the theory so far (e.g., Benkler, 2006;boyd, 2011;Friedland et al, 2006;Friemel & Neuberger, 2021;González-Bailón, 2017;Kaiser et al, 2017;Meraz & Papacharissi, 2013;Simone, 2010;Waldherr et al, 2021).…”

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How to Capture the Relations and Dynamics within the Networked Public Sphere?

Neuberger¹

2022

Questions of Communicative Change and Continuity

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The aim of this chapter is to suggest ways to better capture the diversity of constellations and the dynamics of interactions in the public sphere, triggered by the digital transformation. The starting point is the question of why relations and dynamics should be considered more in communica tion studies and how they have been researched so far. In this respect, the limits of public sphere theory and social network analysis (SNA) are discussed. To overcome these limits, I propose a theoretical framework that combines public sphere theory and SNA with -as a third and new concept -modes of interaction. Such modes of interaction are ideal-typical patterns of interaction between actors in different constellations -namely, diffusion, mobilization, conflict, cooperation, competition, and scandal. Afterwards, I discuss these modes of interaction in the context of different societal subsystems and phases of media change in order to demonstrate their heuristic value. Traditional mass media foster the universalization of competition in several dimensions because competition requires only oneway relations of observation and influence. The Internet supports the in teractive, multi-stage, and sequential communication that is characteristic of conflict and cooperation.Current analysis of the digitalized public sphere partly indicates a dissoluti on of the established order of the mass media era. Diagnoses state a "new crisis of public communication" (Chadwick, 2018) or a "disinformation order" (Bennett & Livingston, 2018). What we are faced with, however, is not only a crisis of the public sphere itself (symptoms are, e.g., fake news, hate speech, polarization, and the digital divide), but also a crisis of its scientific observation and interpretation.How has the digital transformation changed the public sphere? Mass media constitute a comparatively simple and rigid structured public sphere 67

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What Happened to the Public Sphere? The Networked Public Sphere and Public Opinion Formation

Cited by 13 publications

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German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis

German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis

Comunicação política no ambiente digital: uma análise das campanhas eleitorais municipais de 2020 no Facebook

How to Capture the Relations and Dynamics within the Networked Public Sphere?

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