Where There Is Social Media There Is Politics

Nahon, Karine

doi:10.4324/9781315716299-4

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“…The concept of affordance describes how objects provide possibilities for action (Zheng;Yu, 2016). Recognizing that the architecture of each social medium is different (Nahon, 2016) in terms of its structural design, functionalities, algorithms, and datafication models ( Van-Dijck;Poell, 2013) and that digital architecture affects human behavior (Bossetta, 2018), one can assume that technical protocols shape user behavior in virtual spaces.…”

Section: Social Media Affordancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

What are political parties doing on TikTok? The Spanish case

Cervi

Lladó

2021

EPI

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TikTok, already widely used before the pandemic, boomed during the quarantine that locked down large parts of the world, reaching 2 billion downloads and 800 million monthly active users worldwide by the end of 2020. Of these 800 million users, 41% are aged between 16 and 24 years. This social network, widely known for its entertainment videos, is increasingly becoming a place for political discussion and therefore a unique opportunity for political actors to (re)connect with young people. Acknowledging that the political uses of TikTok are still understudied, this paper aims to explore whether and how Spanish political parties are including TikTok as part of their communication strategy. Through an affordance-centered content analysis of all the posts published by the five most important Spanish political parties (PP, PSOE, Ciudadanos, Podemos, and Vox), the current results show that, although all Spanish political parties have adopted this platform, their usage is unequal. From a quantitative perspective, PP was the first party to open a TikTok account, but its usage has been discontinuous; Podemos and Ciudadanos are the parties that publish the most and most constantly, while Vox has only published nine posts and the PSOE one. Nonetheless, from a qualitative perspective, Podemos and Vox generate more engagement and seem to understand and exploit TikTok’s specific affordances better. The findings allow it to be concluded that, although globally Spanish political parties do not fully exploit the platform’s affordances and tend to use it as a unilateral tool for promotion, the most engaging posts are those favoring interaction and geared toward politainment.

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Section: Social Media Affordancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

What are political parties doing on TikTok? The Spanish case

Cervi

Lladó

2021

EPI

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“…Much work in critical algorithm studies examines algorithmic bias, which can be defined as "systems that systematically and unfairly discriminate against certain individuals or groups of individuals in favor of others" [27]. Prior work analyzes algorithmic bias in search engines [36,38,53], surveillance systems (e.g., Facial Recognition Systems) [37], and social media [20,55,71]. For example, Introna and Nissenbaum describe the ways that biased search engines diminish access to information as well as individuals' abilities "to be seen, and heard" [36].…”

Section: Critical Algorithm Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Addressing Age-Related Bias in Sentiment Analysis

Díaz

Johnson

Lazar

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

114

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Computational approaches to text analysis are useful in understanding aspects of online interaction, such as opinions and subjectivity in text. Yet, recent studies have identified various forms of bias in language-based models, raising concerns about the risk of propagating social biases against certain groups based on sociodemographic factors (e.g., gender, race, geography). In this study, we contribute a systematic examination of the application of language models to study discourse on aging. We analyze the treatment of age-related terms across 15 sentiment analysis models and 10 widely-used GloVe word embeddings and attempt to alleviate bias through a method of processing model training data. Our results demonstrate that significant age bias is encoded in the outputs of many sentiment analysis algorithms and word embeddings. We discuss the models' characteristics in relation to output bias and how these models might be best incorporated into research.

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“…Most of these political opportunity structures stem from the introduction of inexpensive online tools and resource‐light practices of “produsage” (Bruns ). These allow increased numbers of non‐ and semi‐professional “produsers” to fluidly transition between the positions of grassroots‐level online discussant, networked gatekeeper, and mediators, curating content for their “gated” audiences to the extent that may even generate salient mainstream exposure for the “news‐framed” curated content (Nahon :47). By blurring the boundaries between curatorial and gatekeeping roles in journalistic content creation—and by eroding distinctions between professional and produser‐based identities—the hybrid media system increasingly exerts influence upon various media spaces.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: the Produsage Of Reinformation Withinmentioning

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Conspiracies beyond Fake News. Produsing Reinformation on Presidential Elections in the Transnational Hybrid Media System

Pyrhönen

Bauvois

2019

Sociological Inquiry

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As presidential elections carry the promise of distilling the contested and elusive "will of the people," the protracted media event intensifies the public demand for exposing the transgressions of the aspiring political elite. This expectation provides fertile ground for investigative journalism, ultrapartisan smear campaigns, fake news, and fullfledged conspiracy theories that are sometimes difficult to differentiate from one another in a hybridized media space. We compare three unique conspiracy stories-Macronleaks, Pizzagate, and Voter fraud-emerging during the previous French and American elections. We assess the divergent strategies of social action that contribute to the stories' dissimilar patterns for intervening the political news cycle with the "reinformative toolkit" and deconstruct the common conspiratorial "masterplot" for "reinforming" the public. Focusing on online "produsers"-media users functioning as (dis)information producers-we analyze how the grassroots level participated in shaping the conspiracy stories' synopses and channeling news-framed, conspiratory content between mainstream and "countermedia" outlets.

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Where There Is Social Media There Is Politics

Cited by 26 publications

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What are political parties doing on TikTok? The Spanish case

What are political parties doing on TikTok? The Spanish case

Addressing Age-Related Bias in Sentiment Analysis

Conspiracies beyond Fake News. Produsing Reinformation on Presidential Elections in the Transnational Hybrid Media System

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