Issue Fields and Echo Chambers: Increasing Field Contestation Fueled by Moral Emotions

IF 4.9 1区 管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Organization Studies Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI:10.1177/01708406241280004
Emma Lei Jing, Elizabeth Goodrick, Trish Reay, Jo-Louise Huq
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We investigate how issue fields with increasing levels of contestation can develop into fields characterized by echo chambers. Studying the introduction of a controversial new approach to addiction services – harm reduction – we explain how proponents’ and opponents’ rhetorical arguments changed over time, transitioning the issue field through different configurations. Our findings reveal how field actors were initially differentiated by moral convictions, and as their expression of moral emotions became more intense, the two groups became increasingly divided and polarized in their views, leading to an issue field characterized by echo chambers. Through our analysis of archival materials and interview data, we explicate this process by identifying three phases of issue field transition: (1) Creating a moral emotional divide; (2) Intensifying antagonization; (3) Insulating against the other side. We contribute to the literature by presenting a model of change explaining how emotional rhetoric, together with different types of triggering events, can fuel increasing levels of contestation and drive the field toward developing echo chambers. Second, by taking a discursive view of issue fields with particular attention to rhetorical arguments, we provide foundational work for an institutional perspective on echo chamber – that echo chambers result from ongoing social processes where people encapsulate themselves based on a sense of right and wrong, in contrast to the predominant view of becoming trapped in an enclosed space. Third, through our focus on the role of moral emotions and how they can escalate in situations of contestation, we advance knowledge regarding the importance of emotions in field dynamics.
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议题场和回音室:道德情感助推领域竞争加剧
我们研究了争议程度越来越高的议题领域是如何发展成为以回声室为特征的领域的。通过研究一种有争议的戒毒服务新方法--减低伤害--的引入,我们解释了支持者和反对者的修辞论点是如何随着时间的推移而发生变化的,从而使议题领域经历了不同的配置。我们的研究结果揭示了这一领域的参与者最初是如何通过道德信念进行区分的,随着他们对道德情感的表达越来越强烈,这两个群体在观点上变得越来越分裂和两极化,从而导致了一个以回声室为特征的议题领域。通过对档案资料和访谈数据的分析,我们确定了议题领域转型的三个阶段,从而解释了这一过程:(1) 制造道德情感鸿沟;(2) 加剧对立;(3) 隔离另一方。我们提出了一个变化模型,解释了情绪化修辞与不同类型的触发事件如何加剧争论,并推动该领域形成回声室,从而为相关文献做出贡献。其次,通过对议题领域的话语视角,特别是对修辞论点的关注,我们为回音室的制度视角提供了基础工作--回音室产生于持续的社会进程,在这一进程中,人们基于是非感进行自我封装,这与被困在封闭空间的主流观点形成了鲜明对比。第三,通过关注道德情感的作用以及它们如何在争论中升级,我们推进了关于情感在现场动态中的重要性的知识。
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Organization Studies MANAGEMENT-
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期刊介绍: Organisation Studies (OS) aims to promote the understanding of organizations, organizing and the organized, and the social relevance of that understanding. It encourages the interplay between theorizing and empirical research, in the belief that they should be mutually informative. It is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal which is open to contributions of high quality, from any perspective relevant to the field and from any country. Organization Studies is, in particular, a supranational journal which gives special attention to national and cultural similarities and differences worldwide. This is reflected by its international editorial board and publisher and its collaboration with EGOS, the European Group for Organizational Studies. OS publishes papers that fully or partly draw on empirical data to make their contribution to organization theory and practice. Thus, OS welcomes work that in any form draws on empirical work to make strong theoretical and empirical contributions. If your paper is not drawing on empirical data in any form, we advise you to submit your work to Organization Theory – another journal under the auspices of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) – instead.
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