Emotion and politics in a mediated public sphere: Questioning democracy, responsibility and ethics in a computer mediated world

Jackson, Lucy; Valentine, Gill

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.01.008

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“…et al 2012) and SNS users cluster themselves in politically homogeneous networks (Borondo, J. et al 2014). Jackson, L. and Valentine, G. (2014) assume that such computer-mediated communication is a new way of doing politics through its absence and presence at the same time. Therefore, SNS are a new political and geo-political instrument of influence, and, at the same time, their use is framed by the existing territorial differences.…”

Section: Political Behaviour In Social Networking Sitesmentioning

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Euromaidan and conflict in Eastern Ukraine in social networking sites: Territorial differences of pro-Russian subscriptions in Ukraine

Dobysh

2019

HunGeoBull

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Securitization of cyberspace is of great geopolitical concern. Behaviour on the Internet is not diminishing the influence of existing borders but can polarize society along territorial divisions. The paper explores territorial differences in the subscription to public pages and open groups in social networking sites (SNS), which emerged as a reaction to revolutionary events in Ukraine (known as Euromaidan or Revolution of Dignity) in 2013-2014 and Russia-backed armed conflict in the East of the country. The findings show differences in subscription to such pages in Vkontakte (the most popular SNS in Ukraine before a ban in 2017) among citizens of Ukraine and Russia, regional centres in Ukraine, cities in uncontrolled by Ukrainian government territories, reclaimed by Ukrainian army territories, territories of Lugansk and Donetsk regions which were not under substantial control of Russia-backed separatists, and peripherial cities of the neighbouring Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhya oblasts. The paper also analyzes the geopolitical narratives of pro-Russian public pages in Vkontakte and shows how SNS could be used as a geopolitical tool.

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Section: Political Behaviour In Social Networking Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Euromaidan and conflict in Eastern Ukraine in social networking sites: Territorial differences of pro-Russian subscriptions in Ukraine

Dobysh

2019

HunGeoBull

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“…While anonymity can strengthen the focus of participants on the argument rather than the person, and thus increase deliberative quality, at the same time it implies a lack of social control that can lead to emotional and erratic behaviour, as has been found, e.g. by analysis of Twitter discussions on new abortion legislation in the UK by Jackson and Valentine (2014). This-with regard to a rational exchange of arguments as the core of a deliberative public sphere-destructive feature of Internet communication, especially of social media, is represented by the "troll".…”

Section: Deliberative Quality Of Online Political Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

E-Democracy and the European Public Sphere

Hennen

2019

European E-Democracy in Practice

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The chapter starts with an outline of outstanding recent contributions to the discussion of the EU democratic deficit and the so-called "no demos" problem and the debate about European citizenship and European identity-mainly in the light of insights from the EU crisis. This is followed by reflections on the recent discussion on the state of the mass media-based European public sphere. Finally, the author discusses the state of research on the Internet's capacity to support the emergence of a (renewed) public sphere, with a focus on options for political actors to use the Internet for communication and campaigning, on the related establishment of segmented issue-related publics as well as on social media and its two-faced character as an enabler as well as a distorting factor of the public sphere. The author is sceptic about the capacities of Internet-based political communication to develop into a supranational (European) public sphere. It rather establishes a network of a multitude of discursive processes aimed at opinion formation at various levels and on various issues. The potential of online communication to increase the responsiveness of political institutions so far is set into practice insufficiently. Online media are increasingly used in a vertical and scarcely in a horizontal or interactive manner of communication.

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“…Jackson and Valentine (2014) wrote that comments sections associated with online news media can "…create an interconnected discussion that focuses not only on a political or social position but also brings emotions into political discussions and enables an engagement with the everyday, micro scale through which people live their daily lives'" (p. 201). Critiques of online settings as forums for public discourse focus on the potential for inflammatory, extreme, and/or abusive (i.e., sexist, racist) comments, particularly since the lack of social and spatial proximity to other participants can erode commenters' sense of social responsibility (Hughey & Daniels, 2013;Jackson & Valentine, 2014).…”

Section: Online Comments As Data Sourcesmentioning

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Risk, nostalgia and the production of the ideal childhood in online commentary on children’s outdoor play

2019

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We use Foucauldian discourse analysis to examine comments posted online in response to news articles that reported on one Canadian neighbourhood's 'ban' on children's outdoor play. Our analysis showed that reader comments, both for and against the ban on street play, accessed discourses of risk that produced an idealized childhood based on close parental supervision. Additionally, nostalgic discourse, the feeling that unfettered, wholesome outdoor play has been lost and cannot be reclaimed, also made claims about who the ideal childhood is for. While marginalized children continue to experience disadvantage that inherently exposes them to risks daily, White, middle class children already have access to safer streets, both parent presence or unquestioned but appropriate parental absence, and play in the streets can be part of their everyday lives. We consider how the idealized childhoods produced by discourses of risk and nostalgia influence the materiality of children's outdoor play, including how children's time is organized and who gets to organize it, how play is experienced and who gets to experience it; in ideal ways, in ideal spaces, and for the ideal child.

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Emotion and politics in a mediated public sphere: Questioning democracy, responsibility and ethics in a computer mediated world

Cited by 33 publications

References 34 publications

Euromaidan and conflict in Eastern Ukraine in social networking sites: Territorial differences of pro-Russian subscriptions in Ukraine

Euromaidan and conflict in Eastern Ukraine in social networking sites: Territorial differences of pro-Russian subscriptions in Ukraine

E-Democracy and the European Public Sphere

Risk, nostalgia and the production of the ideal childhood in online commentary on children’s outdoor play

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