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The right to stay offline? Not during the pandemic 保持离线的权利?疫情期间没有
IF 2.6 2区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-07-15 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2021.1936845
O. Wolski
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event which is transforming societies and strengthening the bond between human and technology. However, less attention is paid to nonusers of the Internet. To combat the pandemic, the Polish government introduced, in June 2020, a new policy that made it possible for citizens who had lost their job as a consequence of the crisis to obtain financial support. The application for this allowance was, however, possible only via an online platform. The paper discusses how this violated the right of the unemployed to stay offline.
摘要新冠肺炎大流行是一场前所未有的事件,它正在改变社会,加强人类与技术之间的联系。然而,对不使用互联网的人关注较少。为了抗击疫情,波兰政府于2020年6月推出了一项新政策,使因危机而失业的公民能够获得财政支持。然而,这项津贴的申请只能通过在线平台进行。本文讨论了这是如何侵犯失业者保持离线状态的权利的。
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引用次数: 1
Undercurrents of echo chambers and flame wars: party political correlates of social media behavior 回音室和火焰战的暗流:政党政治与社交媒体行为的相关性
IF 2.6 2区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-07-14 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2021.1950095
Ilkka Koiranen, A. Koivula, S. Malinen, Teo Keipi
ABSTRACT In this study, we examine how political party preference and politically active social media use associate with social media behaviors – namely, conformist, provocative, and protective – in the context of the current political sphere in Finland. In our empirical analysis, we use a nationally representative dataset collected from 3,724 Finnish citizens in 2018. Our research confirms the assumption that there are notable differences in the social media behaviors of the supporters of different political parties. Additionally, our research shows that politically active social media use increases the occurrence for all three aforementioned behaviors. The study’s results also confirm that major differences in online behavior exist among the new identity parties’ supporters, who rely heavily on post-materialist and neoconservative political values.
摘要在这项研究中,我们考察了在芬兰当前政治领域中,政党偏好和政治活跃的社交媒体使用如何与社交媒体行为联系在一起,即顺从、挑衅和保护。在我们的实证分析中,我们使用了2018年从3724名芬兰公民中收集的具有全国代表性的数据集。我们的研究证实了这样一个假设,即不同政党支持者的社交媒体行为存在显著差异。此外,我们的研究表明,在政治上积极使用社交媒体会增加上述三种行为的发生率。研究结果还证实,新身份政党的支持者在网络行为上存在重大差异,他们严重依赖后唯物主义和新保守主义的政治价值观。
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引用次数: 5
“Who is gullible to political disinformation?” : predicting susceptibility of university students to fake news “谁容易上当政治虚假信息?”:预测大学生对假新闻的易感性
IF 2.6 2区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-07-07 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2021.1945988
R. Bringula, Annaliza E. Catacutan, Manuel B. Garcia, John Paul S. Gonzales, Arlene Mae C. Valderama
ABSTRACT This study determined the items that could predict university students’ susceptibility to disinformation (e.g., fake news). Toward this goal, randomly-selected students from the four private universities in Manila answered a content-validated and pilot-tested survey form. Through binary logistic regression analysis, it was found that frequent visits to Instagram, sharing a political post of a friend, and liking a post of a political party could increase the susceptibility of students to fake news. On the other hand, sharing the post of a political party, and seeking the opinion of experts could decrease the susceptibility of students to fake news. Of these items, liking a post with a similar opinion of a political party – a confirmation bias – had the highest contribution to fake news susceptibility of students. It is worth noting that the most reliable source of information, i.e. the library, is the least utilized fact-checking resource. It can be concluded that technological, internal, and external factors contribute either positively or negatively to the susceptibility of students to fake news. Implications to combat fake news are offered.
本研究确定了可以预测大学生对虚假信息(如假新闻)易感性的项目。为了实现这一目标,从马尼拉四所私立大学随机挑选的学生回答了一份经过内容验证和试点测试的调查表格。通过二元logistic回归分析发现,频繁访问Instagram、分享朋友的政治帖子、点赞某个政党的帖子会增加学生对假新闻的敏感性。另一方面,分享政党的帖子,并寻求专家的意见,可以降低学生对假新闻的敏感性。在这些项目中,点赞与某个政党观点相似的帖子——确认偏见——对学生的假新闻敏感性贡献最大。值得注意的是,最可靠的信息来源,即图书馆,是利用最少的事实核查资源。可以得出结论,技术因素、内部因素和外部因素对学生对假新闻的易感性有积极或消极的影响。本文提出了打击假新闻的启示。
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引用次数: 15
Public responses to COVID-19 information from the public health office on Twitter and YouTube: implications for research practice 公共卫生办公室在推特和YouTube上对新冠肺炎信息的公众反应:对研究实践的影响
IF 2.6 2区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-07-06 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2021.1945987
Jaigris Hodson, G. Veletsianos, S. Houlden
ABSTRACT We collected tweets directed at the official Twitter account of the Canadian Public Health Office as well as comments on a Canadian Public Health Office press conference posted to YouTube. We used a mixed method corpus-assisted discourse analysis approach to categorize and analyze these data. We found key differences between comments on each platform, namely differences in tone and sarcasm in YouTube comments, and more balance in Twitter mentions. Findings suggest that studying public responses to health information on one platform in isolation does not provide an accurate picture. To generate a fuller picture of misinformation, researchers should conduct studies across digital platforms using diverse methods. This research could influence how studies of health communication and public opinion are approached in the future.
我们收集了针对加拿大公共卫生办公室官方Twitter账户的推文,以及发布在YouTube上的加拿大公共卫生办公室新闻发布会的评论。我们使用混合语料库辅助语篇分析方法对这些数据进行分类和分析。我们发现了每个平台上的评论之间的关键差异,即YouTube评论的语气和讽刺的差异,以及Twitter提到的更多平衡。研究结果表明,孤立地研究公众对一个平台上健康信息的反应并不能提供准确的情况。为了更全面地了解错误信息,研究人员应该使用不同的方法在数字平台上进行研究。这项研究可能会影响未来健康传播和公众舆论的研究方式。
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引用次数: 5
Much Ado About Facebook? Evidence from 80 Congressional Campaigns in Chile 关于脸书的很多事?智利80场国会竞选活动的证据
IF 2.6 2区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-06-17 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2021.1936334
J. Luna, C. Pérez, Sergio Y. Toro, F. Rosenblatt, Bárbara Poblete, S. Valenzuela, Andrés Cruz, N. Bro, Daniel Alcatruz, Andrea Escobar
ABSTRACT How do political candidates combine social media campaign tools with on-the-ground political campaigns to pursue segmented electoral strategies? We argue that online campaigns can reproduce and reinforce segmented electoral appeals. Furthermore, our study suggests that electoral segmentation remains a broader phenomenon that includes social media as but one of many instruments by which to appeal to voters. To test our argument, we analyze the case of the 2017 legislative elections in Chile. We combine an analysis of Facebook and online electoral campaign data from 80 congressional campaigns that competed in three districts with ethnographic sources (i.e., campaigns observed on the ground and in-depth interviews with candidates). The results of this novel study suggest that intensive online campaigning mirrors offline segmentation.
政治候选人如何将社交媒体竞选工具与实地政治竞选相结合,以追求分段选举策略?我们认为,在线竞选活动可以复制和加强分段的选举诉求。此外,我们的研究表明,选举分割仍然是一个更广泛的现象,社交媒体只是吸引选民的众多工具之一。为了验证我们的论点,我们分析了2017年智利立法选举的案例。我们结合了对Facebook和在线选举活动数据的分析,这些数据来自80个国会竞选活动,这些竞选活动在三个地区进行竞争,并使用人种学来源(即实地观察的竞选活动和对候选人的深入采访)。这项新研究的结果表明,密集的在线竞选活动反映了线下细分。
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引用次数: 2
Politicians’ willingness to agree: evidence from the interactions in twitter of Chilean deputies 政客们同意的意愿:来自智利议员在推特上互动的证据
IF 2.6 2区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-06-16 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2022.2056278
Pablo Henr'iquez, J. Sabat, Joseph Sullivan
ABSTRACT We contrast the number of “likes” that a given politician gives to another one on Twitter and the number of bills voted in favor by the same pair of politicians to empirically study how signals of agreement in Twitter translate into cross-cutting voting during a highly polarized period of time. As our main contribution, we document empirical evidence that ”likes” between opponents are positively related to the number of bills voted by the same pair of politicians in Congress, even when we control by politicians’ time-invariant characteristics, coalition affiliation, directed and undirected dyads and following links in Twitter.
摘要我们对比了一位政客在推特上给另一位政客的“点赞”数量和同一对政客投票支持的法案数量,以实证研究在高度两极分化的时期,推特上的一致信号如何转化为交叉投票。作为我们的主要贡献,我们记录了经验证据,证明反对者之间的“赞”与国会中同一对政客投票的法案数量呈正相关,即使我们受政客的时间不变特征、联盟隶属关系、定向和无定向二元体以及推特上的关注链接的控制。
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引用次数: 1
Comparing user-content interactivity and audience diversity across news and satire: differences in online engagement between satire, regular news and partisan news 比较新闻和讽刺的用户内容互动性和受众多样性:讽刺、常规新闻和党派新闻之间在线参与度的差异
IF 2.6 2区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-06-15 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2021.1927928
M. Boukes, Xiaotong Chu, M. F. A. Noon, Rufei Liu, Theo Araujo, A. Kroon
ABSTRACT Normative theory on the functioning of the public sphere requires citizens to actively engage with the information that is provided to them. For a long time, however, the possibilities of user-content interactivity have been limited due to the one-directionality of the traditional mass media. Moreover, a re-occurring question is to what extent less-versus-more entertaining forms of news evoke audience engagement. This study analyzes the user-content engagement on online platforms in response to journalistic content and infotainment; more concretely, we compare whether the satire genre is more likely to evoke user-content interactivity than regular news and partisan news shows. To test our hypotheses, a large-scale data analysis of social media posts by a wide variety of American TV shows on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter has been conducted. Results demonstrate satire’s potential to encourage user-content interactivity: Satire videos generated (a) more likes and (b) more comments than the clips of regular news. However, we also find that (c) satire videos are related to less controversy, which arguably indicates that satire hampers the exchange of diverse ideas. Compared to partisan news – which shares many features of satire, but often lacks the humor component – satire elicits more likes but less commentary and less controversy.
关于公共领域功能的规范理论要求公民积极参与提供给他们的信息。然而,长期以来,由于传统大众传媒的单向性,用户-内容互动的可能性受到了限制。此外,一个反复出现的问题是,娱乐性较低与娱乐性较强的新闻形式在多大程度上唤起了观众的参与。本研究分析了用户在网络平台上对新闻内容和信息娱乐的参与度;更具体地说,我们比较了讽刺类型是否比常规新闻和党派新闻节目更有可能引起用户内容的互动。为了验证我们的假设,我们对Facebook、YouTube和Twitter上各种各样的美国电视节目的社交媒体帖子进行了大规模的数据分析。结果表明,讽刺具有鼓励用户内容互动的潜力:讽刺视频比常规新闻片段产生(a)更多的点赞和(b)更多的评论。然而,我们也发现(c)讽刺视频与较少的争议相关,这可能表明讽刺阻碍了不同思想的交流。党派新闻与讽刺新闻有许多相似之处,但往往缺乏幽默成分。相比之下,讽刺新闻得到的点赞更多,但评论和争议更少。
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引用次数: 1
Toward geopolitical gaming: exploring the tension between Blizzard Entertainment and political forces 走向地缘政治游戏:探索暴雪娱乐与政治力量之间的紧张关系
IF 2.6 2区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-06-02 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2021.1922326
Dakoda Trithara
ABSTRACT Why did Blizzard Entertainment sanction a professional esports player for showing support for the 2019 Hong Kong protests during an official streaming event and later reduce the penalty? Drawing on public primary source documents including press releases, tweets, statements, and the Congressional Record, I argue competitive gaming has developed to a level where various forces are politicizing esports events to increase the visibility of social issues and influence the policymaking process. This is possible because the global nature of esports provides an economic incentive for video game developers to maintain a presence in particular markets through actions other markets may deem politically untenable, while also giving players a worldwide platform to communicate activist messages. The case study explores the broader political context around esports by offering a novel description illuminating the #BoycottBlizzard consumer movement and how esports events can act as fora for geopolitical tensions to unfold.
摘要为什么暴雪娱乐制裁了一名职业电子竞技选手,因为他在官方流媒体活动中支持2019年香港抗议活动,后来又减轻了处罚?根据包括新闻稿、推文、声明和国会记录在内的公共主要来源文件,我认为竞技游戏已经发展到各种力量将电子竞技活动政治化的程度,以提高社会问题的知名度并影响决策过程。这是可能的,因为电子竞技的全球性质为电子游戏开发商提供了一种经济激励,通过其他市场可能认为在政治上站不住脚的行动来保持在特定市场的存在,同时也为玩家提供了一个全球平台来传达积极分子的信息。该案例研究通过提供一个新颖的描述,探讨了围绕电子竞技的更广泛的政治背景,阐明了#BoycottBlizzard消费者运动,以及电子竞技事件如何成为地缘政治紧张局势爆发的论坛。
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引用次数: 5
FBAdLibrarian and Pykognition: open science tools for the collection and emotion detection of images in Facebook political ads with computer vision FBAdLibrarian和Pykognition:利用计算机视觉对Facebook政治广告中的图像进行收集和情感检测的开放科学工具
IF 2.6 2区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-05-21 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2021.1928579
Rasmus Schmøkel, Michael Bossetta
ABSTRACT We present a methodological workflow using two open science tools that we developed. The first, FBAdLibrian, collects images from the Facebook Ad Library. The second, Pykognition, simplifies facial and emotion detection in images using computer vision. We provide a methodological workflow for using these tools and apply them to a case study of the 2020 US primary elections. We find that unique images of campaigning candidates are only a fraction (<.1%) of overall ads. Furthermore, we find that candidates most often display happiness and calm in their facial expressions, and they rarely attack opponents in image-based ads from their official Facebook pages. When candidates do attack, opponents are portrayed with emotions such as anger, sadness, and fear.
我们提出了一个使用我们开发的两个开放科学工具的方法论工作流。第一个是FBAdLibrian,它从Facebook广告库中收集图片。第二个是Pykognition,它使用计算机视觉简化了图像中的面部和情感检测。我们提供了一个使用这些工具的方法论工作流程,并将其应用于2020年美国初选的案例研究。我们发现竞选候选人的独特图像只占整个广告的一小部分(< 0.1%)。此外,我们发现候选人最常在他们的面部表情中表现出快乐和平静,他们很少在他们的官方Facebook页面上的基于图像的广告中攻击对手。当候选人发起攻击时,对手会表现出愤怒、悲伤和恐惧等情绪。
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引用次数: 6
Race, social media news use, and political participation 种族、社交媒体新闻使用和政治参与
IF 2.6 2区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2021-05-16 DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2021.1923497
Lu Wang
ABSTRACT This research examines how race moderates the association between social media news consumption and political participation. Through an analysis of Pew Research Center survey data, this study finds that social networking sites (SNS) are crucial for racial minorities’ political participation. Racial minorities showed a higher level of SNS usage for news consumption, and Black people exhibited significantly higher levels of online political participation than White people, especially when SNS news consumption was at a low frequency. Yet the association between SNS news use and online participation was stronger for White people than Black people. In contrast, this research did not find a significant racial gap in offline voting engagement nor extra democratic benefits of SNS news consumption for racial minorities.
摘要本研究考察了种族如何调节社交媒体新闻消费与政治参与之间的关系。通过对皮尤研究中心调查数据的分析,本研究发现社交网站对少数族裔的政治参与至关重要。少数种族在新闻消费中使用社交网络的程度更高,黑人的网络政治参与程度明显高于白人,尤其是在社交网络新闻消费频率较低的情况下。然而,白人的社交网络新闻使用和在线参与之间的联系比黑人更强。相比之下,这项研究没有发现线下投票参与度存在显著的种族差距,也没有发现社交网络新闻消费对少数族裔的额外民主好处。
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引用次数: 5
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