Filtering 2008 US presidential election news on YouTube by elites and nonelites: An examination of the democratizing potential of the internet

Dylko, Ivan B.; Beam, Michael A.; Landreville, Kristen D.; Geidner, Nicholas

doi:10.1177/1461444811428899

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“…Interactivity tools like retweets and hashtags were seldom used and, in contrast to Habermasian ideals of inclusion of peripheral actors, the nodes in discussion networks seemed to be the "old" elites. This is also the case with other social media like YouTube: Dylko et al (2011) show that, while non-elites have entered the discourse, the old elites keep a dominant position. Murphy (2011) points out that access to Twitter is "a socially stratified practice", as most low-income households worldwide have limited Internet access and-more importantly-low levels of digital literacy.…”

Section: Twitter and Election Campaignsmentioning

confidence: 71%

Hablando con y sobre políticos en Twitter: un análisis de tweets que contienen menciones de candidatos en las elecciones presidenciales brasileñas

Medeiros¹,

Bastian²,

Trilling³

2016

Rev. Lat. Op. Pub.

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While Twitter has become an increasingly important platform for public opinion formation, little is known about its use in recent Latin American election campaigns. We therefore investigate the case of the presidential elections in Brazil in October 2014, in order to analyze communication structures in actual and para-social interactions with presidential candidates. In particular, while Twitter makes it easy for ordinary citizens to express their opinion online, it is maybe even more important that they can also address and communicate with persons who would otherwise not be reachable at all. Politicians are probably the most important group in this regard. Based on N = 1,891,657 tweets containing an @mention of a candidate in the Brazilian elections of 2014, we investigate which actual or para-social interactions with the candidates take place. Furthermore, because framing literature suggests that all actors involved in a discussion on social media will try to highlight specific aspects and interpretations of issues and events, we used techniques of co-word analysis to investigate the ways in which the main candidates were framed by the Twitter users. The results give insight into the deliberative potential of Twitter: they show

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Section: Twitter and Election Campaignsmentioning

confidence: 71%

Hablando con y sobre políticos en Twitter: un análisis de tweets que contienen menciones de candidatos en las elecciones presidenciales brasileñas

Medeiros¹,

Bastian²,

Trilling³

2016

Rev. Lat. Op. Pub.

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“…Perhaps the gatekeeper perceived more credibility, professionalism, and analytical skills in the tweets from media-related professionals. Nevertheless, the tendency to use elite sources in on-screen visuals was supported, just as previous research in social media has found a continued reliance on elites (e.g., Dylko et al, 2012). Our findings lend support to the Internet and social media skeptics who do not anticipate that new technologies will change the elite bias in news coverage and that elites will somehow fail to find a way to dominate the newest technology (R. Davis & Owen, 1998;Winner, 2003).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…Research on Internet blogs found a gatekeeping process in place where large blogs function as opinion leaders for smaller blogs, and moderation of large blogs enabled a structure for editorial gatekeeping to occur (Haas, 2005). New social media formats have also been found to highlight public figures and elites when compared with average citizens on popular Internet venues, such as YouTube (Dylko, Beam, Landreville, & Geidner, 2012). Previous research has also found that the integration of audience participation into traditional formats of journalism, such as the integration of received text messages from audience members into news production, utilized a gatekeeping process that left the moderator to select and edit messages (Enli, 2007).…”

Section: Gatekeeping and Social Mediamentioning

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Tweets, Polls, and Quotes: Gatekeeping and Bias in On-Screen Visuals During the Final 2012 Presidential Debate

Landreville

White

Allen

2015

Communication Studies

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This study content analyzed the on-screen visuals (i.e., candidate quotes, live Twitter feed, and poll results) displayed during the final presidential debate on the ABC News=Yahoo News live-streaming online coverage. Gatekeeping and research on political campaign coverage were used to provide rationale about the nature of the on-screen visuals. Results largely confirmed previous research into presidential campaign coverage: The on-screen visuals revealed a reliance on elite sources (media-related professionals and public figures), the on-screen visuals were largely neutral in nature for the candidates (although there was a slight pro-Obama advantage in the tweets and a slight pro-Romney advantage in the quoted material shown on-screen), and the on-screen visuals focused on horserace, strategy, and image at the expense of issue and policy discussion.Debates are a key element during presidential campaigns and are oftentimes the climax of a campaign that has spanned several years. Debates also attract millions upon millions of television viewers. The 2012 presidential debates were no different; the first debate reached an approximate 67.2 million viewers (Nielsen, 2012a), the second debate saw viewership drop slightly with 65.6 million viewers (Nielsen,

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“…Así, distintos autores se han centrado en el efecto de redes digitales concretas como Twitter o Facebook sobre las campañas electorales en distintos países del mundo (Williams y Gulati, 2013), las revueltas políticas o los procesos de acción colectiva (Bennett y Segerbert, 2013;Dylko et al, 2012). Estos estudios, en mayor o menor medida, están dirigidos a medir el efecto de distintas prácticas realizadas a través de las redes sociales digitales sobre la relación entre ciudadanos o, entre estos, y sus representantes (Dalton, 2010).…”

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El movimiento 15-M en los medios y en las redes. Un análisis de sus estrategias comunicativas

Robles¹,

Díez²,

Castromil³

et al. 2015

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El movimiento 15-m en los medios y en las redes.Un análisis de sus estrategias comunicativas RESUMENEste trabajo se centra en el análisis de los usos de Internet por parte de los activistas del movimiento 15-M en dos sentidos: i) como vehículo de comunicación con sus potenciales audiencias y ii) como estrategia que permite poner en circulación marcos alternativos a los ofrecidos por los mass media. Por ello analizamos, también, el papel que jugó la prensa escrita durante las elecciones autonómicas y municipales de 2011 cuando el movimiento irrumpió con fuerza en la vida pública española. Frente a los marcos desarrollados por la prensa escrita durante dicho periodo, los activistas del movimiento reaccionaron con una estrategia dirigida a controlar el flujo de información sobre lo que estaba sucediendo en las plazas de muchas ciudades de España. Se trata, de una estrategia de acción comunicativa que gira en torno al marco general del 15-M y que, gracias en gran medida a Internet, se centra en la necesidad de desarrollar formas de participación directas y des-intermediar las relaciones entre los activistas y el resto de ciudadanos.

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Filtering 2008 US presidential election news on YouTube by elites and nonelites: An examination of the democratizing potential of the internet

Cited by 82 publications

References 30 publications

Hablando con y sobre políticos en Twitter: un análisis de tweets que contienen menciones de candidatos en las elecciones presidenciales brasileñas

Hablando con y sobre políticos en Twitter: un análisis de tweets que contienen menciones de candidatos en las elecciones presidenciales brasileñas

Tweets, Polls, and Quotes: Gatekeeping and Bias in On-Screen Visuals During the Final 2012 Presidential Debate

El movimiento 15-M en los medios y en las redes. Un análisis de sus estrategias comunicativas

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