Digital Transformations of the Public Arena

Jungherr, Andreas; Schroeder, Ralph

doi:10.1017/9781009064484

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“…This type of bottom-up and outwarddirected nationalism is therefore novel and goes beyond "soft power" as traditionally conceived. It is a feature of a social world in which traditional theories of the internet or of media generally have to be revised to take into account that media are no longer just dominated by broadcast or one-to-many communication, but also consist of bottom-up or user-generated content that includes shared messages and where traditional media no longer exclusively act as gatekeepers of the public sphere (Jungherr and Schroeder 2021). This source of media content thus goes beyond "soft power" and propaganda or state-directed and top-down efforts.…”

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Chinese Anti-Westernism on social media

Lehman-Ludwig¹,

Burke²,

Ambler³

et al. 2023

Global Media and China

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The Chinese Communist Party and its supporters are increasingly using social media platforms to shape China’s public image. This online image is a means of strengthening domestic nationalism and of projecting “soft power” abroad. This paper examines various forms of anti-Westernism that are central to this image-making. It analyzes several recent topics—the Belt and Road Initiative, climate change, the COVID-19 vaccine, the Beijing Olympics, and the conflict in Ukraine—on the r/Sino subreddit page of Reddit and compares them with two online news outlets, the South China Morning Post and China Daily. The paper focuses on how these media frame the contest between a rising China and a failing West, so creating a discourse that competes with the negative portrayals of China outside the country. The paper contrasts the aggressive strengthening of China’s image against the West on social media with more sober accounts of the same topics in China’s official media and in commercial news outlets. The contribution of the paper is to document an emerging online anti-Westernism that is playing an increasing role in the changing geopolitical landscape.

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Chinese Anti-Westernism on social media

Lehman-Ludwig¹,

Burke²,

Ambler³

et al. 2023

Global Media and China

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“…In the past, they could rely on traditional mass media to carry their message to the public but at a time of fracturing audiences, a myriad of different news outlets, and plenty of opportunity for people disinterested in politics to avoid the news, this is not enough. Parties and campaigns need to adapt to the digital transformation of the public arena (Jungherr & Schroeder, 2021a) in order to achieve presence in information spaces (Jungherr et al, 2020, pp. 30-68) and to reach the public (Jungherr et al, 2020, pp.…”

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Digital campaigning: how digital media change the work of parties and campaign organizations and impact elections

Jungherr¹

2023

Research Handbook on Digital Sociology

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Digital media have come to play an important role in the work of political parties and campaign organizations all over the world. Examples for the use of digital media in the United States (US) like Barack Obama's presidential campaigns of 2008 and 2012 and Donald Trump's campaign of 2016 dominate the public imagination. At the same time, it is important to recognize that the uses of digital media in politics vary considerably depending on campaign contexts or resources. This demands for the analysis of the use of digital media by parties and campaign organizations in varying temporal and international contexts instead of expecting the examples from the US to apply globally.The focus of this chapter lies on the discussion of how digital media have impacted the work of political parties, especially the way they run political campaigns. Political parties are at the heart of democracies and although they face persistent challenges regarding membership and public trust, they are crucial institutions connecting the people with political elites and the government (Dalton et al., 2011). This renders the impact of digital media on parties' ability to connect with voters one of the crucial channels through which digital media impact democracy (Jungherr et al., 2020, pp. 158-178).Digital media have a strong impact on politics beyond parties. They have changed the work of non-governmental organizations (Bimber et al., 2012;Karpf, 2012), extended the toolkits and repertoires available to activists and protestors (Bennett & Segerberg, 2013;Earl & Kimport, 2011;Jackson et al., 2020), and provided new forms of political participation (Theocharis & van Deth, 2018). These are important changes. But the specific institutional, organizational, and participatory characteristics of political parties deviate strongly from these other political organizations and forms of political participation. This makes the analysis and discussion about the role and impact of digital media in the work of political parties an important topic in its own right. Of course, this does not mean that the patterns identified in the broader discussion on the impact of digital media on political organization, participation, and activism do not also inform the study of political parties.By now, digital tools available to parties, elites, and people in their pursuit of politics and political information have reached a staggering variety. In the past, it was possible to discuss the role of 'the internet' in politics, 'social media', or specific services like Facebook or Twitter. Today, the variety of available services and their differentiated uses and functions challenges these unified approaches. Instead, I will use the term 'digital media' in order to capture the breadth of this phenomenon in the work of political parties. Here, I follow the

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“…We side with Guess (2021) who has argued that various "research strands have succeeded in providing descriptive and causal evidence on the scope of the misinformation problem" (p. 2) as well as possible interventions. The flurry of activity since 2016 after Brexit and the election of Donald Trumparguably catalysts for the emergence of the field-have also helped shine a spotlight on the general quality and structure of our information and media environments, their interdependency with functioning democracies, and how they have been reshaped through digital media (Jungherr & Schroeder, 2021b). This, in turn, has spurred greater awareness and investment on these issues, for example, in journalistic reporting that has held platforms and purveyors of mis-/disinformation accountable, as well as various initiatives which seek to improve the quality of information available to audiences, such as fact checkers.…”

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Mis- and disinformation studies are too big to fail: Six suggestions for the field’s future

Camargo

Simon

2022

HKS Misinfo Review

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Who are mis-/disinformation studies for? What agenda does the field serve? How can it be improved? While the increase in the attention towards the topic in the last years is healthy, it has also led to an explosion of papers in all directions, and the field has been subject to various criticisms and attacks. In this commentary, we discuss the status and wider impact of the field, raise current challenges, and propose ways ahead for the development of a more critical, interdisciplinary, and rigorous scholarly discipline of mis- and disinformation studies.

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Digital Transformations of the Public Arena

Cited by 22 publications

References 141 publications

Chinese Anti-Westernism on social media

Chinese Anti-Westernism on social media

Digital campaigning: how digital media change the work of parties and campaign organizations and impact elections

Mis- and disinformation studies are too big to fail: Six suggestions for the field’s future

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