affective publics
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Affec&ve Publics:
Affec&ve News Streams and News Storytelling 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. (2013). Broadcasting and Listening Practices on #egypt: Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing. International Journal of Press and Politics Papacharissi, Z. & Meraz, S. (2013).The Rhythms of Occupy: Broadcasting and Listening Practices on #ows Meraz, S. & Papacharissi, Z. (2012). Networked framing and gatekeeping on #ows – forthcoming Papacharissi, Z. (2014). Affective Publics. Oxford University Press.
premise
• Twi<er and news storytelling
• Collec&vely prodused news feeds and the news economy
• Twi<er as alterna&ve/primary channel for informa&on
• Twi<er as news repor&ng mechanism – Established news values guide use of Twi<er
– News breaking/premedia&on/instantaneity
– Homophily, peripheral awareness and ambient news environments, hybridity
• Twi<er as news sharing mechanism during uprisings – Electronic word of mouth – Broadcas&ng and ‘listening in’ on uprisings
– Homophily and group iden&ty
News values and the form of news on #egypt
• 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] • 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
Hybridity of old + new news values
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
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The Form of Affec&ve News
Affect: pre-‐emo&ve intensity 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 set the pace/ fueled intensity • Oral and print cultures of storytelling combine News, fact, drama, opinion, emo&on blend into one = affect
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
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
[affec&ve publics] Streams sustain publics convened around affec&ve commonali&es-‐ Impact is symbolic, agency claimed seman5c, power liminal.
::affec&ve publics::
• Materialize uniquely and leave dis&nct digital footprints
• Support connec&ve, yet not necessarily collec&ve ac&on
• Are powered by affec&ve statements of opinion, fact, or a blend of both, which in turn produce ambient, always on feeds further connec&ng and pluralizing expression in regimes democra&c and non.
• Typically produce disrup&ons/interrup&ons of dominant poli&cal narra&ves by presencing underrepresented viewpoints.
• Streams sustain publics convened around affec&ve commonali&es-‐ Impact is symbolic, agency claimed seman5c, power liminal.
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