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BROADCASTING AND LISTENING PRACTICES ON #EGYPT:NETWORKED GATEKEEPING AND FRAMING ON TWITTER
Sharon Meraz, PhD Zizi Papacharissi @zizip
Assistant Professor, Communication Professor and Head, Communication
University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois at Chicago
premise
• Twitter and news storytelling
• Collectively prodused news feeds and the news economy
• Twitter as alternative/primary channel for information
previous research
• Twitter as news reporting mechanism• Established news values guide use of Twitter• News breaking/premediation/instantaneity• Homophily, peripheral awareness and ambient news environments,
hybridity
• Twitter as news sharing mechanism during uprisings• Electronic word of mouth• Broadcasting and ‘listening in’ on uprisings• Homophily and group identity +++JOC theme issue
research design• Networked Gatekeeping• Networked Framing
RQ1: Who were the prominent users and how was their prominence negotiated across the different conversational markers?
RQ2: To what extent did prominent users forge connections to other users based on the users’ levels of prominence across the different addressivity markers?
RQ3: To what extent does the usage of hashtags reflect an organic level framing to the real world events occurring during the Egyptian protests?
RQ4: What types of conversational practices support processes of gatekeeping and framing negotiation?
• METHODFrequency analysis (R), 1.5 mil multi-lingual tweets, network analysis (SQL queries), discourse analysis
dual processes of networked gatekeeping and framing
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dual process of networked gatekeeping and framing
networked framing
networked gatekeeping
networked gatekeeping: connectivity
networked gatekeeping: reciprocal ties
conversational affordances and practices
• Affect and ambience• Conversational practices mix of news, opinion, emotion reflecting
movement toward the not yet, retweets as conversational refrains/chorus, affective gestures support contagion and rhythm, state that conveys impression of constant movement
• Always on environment with a life cycle and pulse of its own, sustaining movement even when nothing new is going on
• Networked gatekeeping and framing• Conversational tendencies• Cosmopolitanism/fluency in (multi) cultural context• Directly conversational, become embedded via offline and online
activities
Practices of broadcasting / listening / redacting• Networked Gatekeeping
Process through which actors crowdsourced to prominence through the use of addressivity markers and conversational practices
• Networked FramingProcess through which a particular problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation attain prominence through crowdsourcing practices
• Affect and ambiencesupport always on space - electronic elsewheres - that treated this movement as a revolution well before it had actually become a revolution
Thank you! @zizip uic.edu/~zizi