1. Affec&ve
news
streams
and
networked
publics:
mediality
and
engagement
on
Twi;er
Zizi
Papacharissi,
PhD
Professor
and
Head,
Communica&on,
University
of
Illinois-‐
Chicago
@zizip
Papacharissi, Z. & Oliveira, de Fatima M. (2012). Affective News and Networked Publics: The Rhythms of News
Storytelling on #Egypt. Journal of Communication.
Meraz, S. & Papacharissi, Z. (2012). Broadcasting and Listening Practices on #egypt: Networked Gatekeeping
and Networked Framing. Paper presented at IAMCR, Durban, South Africa.
Papacharissi, Z. & Meraz, S. (2012).The Rhythms of Occupy: Broadcasting and Listening Practices on #ows-IR13
Meraz, S. & Papacharissi, Z. (2012). Networked framing and gatekeeping on #ows - forthcoming
2. premise
• Twi;er
as
news
repor&ng
mechanism
• Twi;er
and
news
storytelling
– Established
news
values
guide
use
of
Twi;er
– News
breaking/premedia&on/
instantaneity
• Collec&vely
prodused
news
– Homophily,
peripheral
awareness
and
ambient
news
feeds
and
the
news
economy
environments,
hybridity
• Twi;er
as
news
sharing
• Twi;er
as
alterna&ve/ mechanism
during
uprisings
primary
channel
for
– Electronic
word
of
mouth
informa&on
– Broadcas&ng
and
‘listening
in’
on
uprisings
– Homophily
and
group
iden&ty
3. • News
values
• The
form
of
news
as
specific
to
socio-‐cultural
context
RQ1:
What
news
values
were
prevalent
in
the
Twi;er
news
streams
capturing
the
events
of
the
2011
Egyp&an
uprising?
RQ2:
What
form
did
news
storytelling
on
Twi;er
take
during
the
recent
2011
Egyp&an
uprising?
METHOD:
Frequency
analysis
(
R
),
1.5
million
mul&lingual
tweets,
computerized
content
analysis
(seman&c,
addressivity
markers,
flow),
discourse
analysis
#egypt
News
values
and
the
form
of
news
on
#egypt
4. [news
values]
• News
values
priori&se
stories
about
events
that
are
recent,
sudden,
unambiguous,
predictable,
relevant
and
close
(to
the
relevant
culture/class/loca&on).
• Priority
is
given
to
stories
about
the
economy,
government
poli&cs,
industry
and
business,
foreign
affairs
and
domes&c
affairs-‐either
of
conflict
or
human
interest-‐
disasters
and
sport.
• Priority
is
given
to
elite
na&ons
(the
US,
the
UK,
Europe,
etc.)
and
elite
people.
• News
values
ofen
involve
appeals
to
dominant
ideologies
and
discourses.
What
is
cultural
and/or
historical
will
be
presented
as
natural
and
consensual.
• News
stories
need
to
appeal
to
readers/viewers
so
they
must
be
commonsensical,
entertaining
and
drama&c
(like
fic&on),
and
visual
(Hartley,
2002,
p.
166).
News
values
turn
events
into
stories
5. Old
values
Large
scale
of
events,
closeness
to
home,
clarity
of
meaning,
short
&me
scale,
relevance,
consonance,
personifica&on,
significance,
drama,
ac&on
+++
it’s
all
there,
except
nega&vity
Remedia-ons
and/or
new
values
(drama)
of
instantaneity
Events
instantly
turn
into
stories
crowdsourced
elites
(networked
gatekeeping)
solidarity
(networked
framing)
ambience
Constancy
and
con&nuity
of
always
on
news
environment
with
a
pulse
of
its
own,
organic,
collec&ve
Hybridity
of
old
+
new
news
values
12. Affect:
emo&ve
expressions/feeling
subjec&vely
experienced
connected
to
processes
of
premedia&on/an&cipa&on
of
events
prior
to
their
occurrence
• Rhythm
and
pace
of
storytelling
– Instant,
emo&ve,
pha&c
• Repe&&on
and
mimicry
set
the
pace
• Oral
and
print
cultures
of
storytelling
combine
News,
fact,
drama,
opinion,
emo&on
blend
into
one
=
affect
The
Form
of
Affec&ve
News
13. Affec&ve
news
streams
Collabora&ve
news
feeds
expose
(temporal)
incompa&bili&es
between
live
twee&ng
news
and
news
repor&ng
=
many
journalisms
Leaderless
publics/revolu&ons?
Affect
and
news
storytelling,
affect
and
mobiliza&on
14. THE
RHYTHMS
OF
OCCUPY
(#ows)-‐
theore&cal
framework
Who
says
what
to
whom
[w/what
effect]
Framing/Gatekeeping
Networked
Gatekeeping
a
process
through
which
actors
are
crowdsourced
to
prominence
via
the
use
of
conversa&onal,
social
prac&ces
that
symbio&cally
connect
elite
and
crowd
in
the
determina&on
of
informa&on
relevancy
Networked
Framing
Process
through
which
a
par&cular
problem
defini&on,
causal
interpreta&on,
moral
evalua&on,
and/or
treatment
recommenda&on
a;ain
prominence
through
crowdsourcing
prac&ces
15. research
design
RQ
1:
How
do
tweets
containing
conversa&onal
markers
describe
the
networked
rhythms
of
content
produced
via
#ows?
RQ2:
How
do
elite
users
emerge
across
addressivity
markers?
RQ3:
How
do
prominent
frames
emerge
through
the
news
stream
of
#ows?
METHOD
10%
stra&fied
random
sample
Oct
2011-‐
July
2012
–
vigiglobe.com
Frequency
analysis
(SQL
scripts),
computerized
content
analysis
(SQL
scripts
+seman&c
on
addressivity
markers
and
hashtag
frequency),
discourse
analysis
(isolated
episodes
of
high
addressivity/peaks,
examine
content,
addressity
pa;erns,
focus
of
conversa&on,
conversa&onal
tendencies)
16. RQ1:
Networked
rhythms
of
content
produced
via
#ows
6000
5000
4000
3000
count
Men&on
RT
2000
Via
1000
0
19. Conversa&onal
prac&ces
and
affordances
(discourse
analysis
findings)
Openness
and
disorder
– Reluctance
to
frame
and
name
elites
– ideological
trolling,
conten&on,
2
broad
opposing
frames
– No
delibera&on,
cascade
of
informa&on
and
opinion
Connec&ve
ac&on
tropes
and
empty
signifiers
– Personalized
ac&on
frames,
presencing
– Refrains
and
resis&ng
the
collec&ve
we
Performa&vity
– Informa&on
sharing
vs.
opinions
– Affec&ve
claims
and
affec&ve
publics
20. Aferword
Affec&ve
Publics
(Oxford
U
Press,
2013)
Mul&-‐mediali&es
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and
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