the rhythms of news storytelling on twitter:affective news streams, hybridity, and networked publics
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The rhythms of news storytelling on Twitter: Affective news streams, hybridity, and networked publics
Zizi Papacharissi, PhD Professor and Head, Communica7on, 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, in press.
Premise
• TwiCer and news storytelling
• Collec7vely prodused news feeds and the news economy
• TwiCer as alterna7ve/primary channel for informa7on
Previous Research
• TwiCer as news repor7ng mechanism • Established news values guide use of TwiCer • News breaking/premedia7on/instantaneity
• Homophily, peripheral awareness and ambient news environments, hybridity
• TwiCer as news sharing mechanism during uprisings • Electronic word of mouth
• Broadcas7ng and ‘listening in’ on uprisings • Homophily and group iden7ty
News values and the form of news on Twitter
• News values
• The form of news as specific to socio-‐cultural context
RQ1: What news values were prevalent in the TwiCer news streams capturing the events of the 2011 Egyp7an uprising?
RQ2: What form did news storytelling on TwiCer take during the recent 2011 Egyp7an uprising?
• METHOD: Frequency analysis ( R ), 1.5 million mul7lingual tweets, Content analysis, (word network map), Discourse analysis #egypt
(news values)
• News values priori7se stories about events that are recent, sudden, unambiguous, predictable, relevant and close (to the relevant culture/class/loca7on).
• Priority is given to stories about the economy, government poli7cs, industry and business, foreign affairs and domes7c affairs-‐either of conflict or human interest-‐ disasters and sport.
• Priority is given to elite na7ons (the US, the UK, Europe, etc.) and elite people.
• News values ocen 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 drama7c (like fic7on), and visual (Hartley, 2002, p. 166).
News values turn events into stories
• Old values • Large scale of events, closeness to home, clarity of meaning, short 7me
scale, relevance, consonance, personifica7on, significance, drama, ac7on +++ it’s all there, except nega7vity
• Remedia7ons and/or new values • (drama) of instantaneity
• Events instantly turn into stories • crowdsourced elites
• Solidarity
• Ambience • Constancy and con7nuity of always on news environment with a pulse of its own, organic, collec7ve
Hybridity of old new news values
Affect: Emo7ve expressions subjec7vely experienced connected to processes of premedia7on/an7cipa7on of events prior to their occurrence • Rhythm and pace of storytelling
• Instant, emo7ve, pha7c
• Repe77on and mimicry set the pace • Oral and print cultures of storytelling combine
News, fact, drama, opinion, emo7on blend into one = affect
The Form of Affective News
Affective news streams
Collabora7ve news feeds expose (temporal) incompa7bili7es between live twee7ng news and news repor7ng = many journalisms
Leaderless publics/revolu7ons?
Affect and news storytelling, affect and mobiliza7on
instantaneity
instantaneity
Affective-resignation
Affective-most
Affective 2
Affective 3
Affective 5
Affective 6 -newsy
Affective 7 – mainstream
Oral and print
Affective-much more mainstream
General