Let's replay the political debate: Hypervideo technology for visual sensemaking of televised election debates

Abstract

Despite the widespread proliferation of social media in policy and politics, televised election debates are still a prominent form of large-scale public engagement between politicians and the electorate during election campaigns. Advanced visual interfaces can improve these important spaces of democratic engagement. In this paper, we present a user study in which a new hypervideo technology was compared with a publicly available interface for television replay. The results show that hypervideo navigation, coupled with interactive visualisations, improved sensemaking of televised political debates and promoted people's attitude to challenging personal assumptions. This finding suggests that hypervideo interfaces can play a substantial role in supporting citizens in the complex sensemaking process of informing their political choices during an election campaign, and can be used as instruments to promote critical thinking and political opinion shifting.

The Grand Finale

“…Debates provide an effective forum for communicating viewpoints and the rationale behind political decisions (Marien et al, 2020). Despite the widespread development of social media within politics, debates remain a key form of public engagement between politicians and voters during campaigns, which is why it is pertinent to comprehend debate effects on voters’ perceptions of candidates and on voting intentions (De Liddo et al, 2021).…”

“…On the other hand, the lack of metric invariance for Rui Rio implies that the relationships between the observed variables and the latent dimensions were inconsistent before and after the debate for the PSD candidate. This could be due to a variety of factors such as differences in communication style between both candidates, debate performance, or even audience reception (De Liddo et al, 2021). More specifically, Rui Rio may have employed different rhetorical strategies or conveyed different messages during the debate, which could lead to possible shifts in perceptions of warmth and competence among viewers.…”

Emociones políticas y narrativas prototípicas: TikTok en las campañas políticas, estudio de caso

“…En esta dirección, las palabras claves fueron las siguientes: "debate presidencial" -asociado como una práctica central en el contexto de campañas electorales- (de Liddo et al, 2021), "TikTok de Gustavo Petro" y "TikTok de Rodolfo Hernández". Como lo señala Orduña-Malea (2019), el contenido que las personas buscan en Internet está ligado a sus "inclinaciones sexuales o afinidades políticas, temas todos ellos noticiosos y susceptibles de generar la atención y curiosidad de los lectores".…”

Developing Misinformation Immunity: How to Reason-Check Fallacious News in a Human–Computer Interaction Environment

“…Assuming that critical thinking in the media ecosystem implies a process of sensemaking the information accessed through the news (Grasso & Convertino, 2012), we have taken as a starting point the sensemaking scale developed by De Liddo et al (2021). Their scale has been used to evaluate the efficacy of Democratic Replay , a platform meant to enhance televised election debates with interactive visualizations of speakers’ arguments, dialogical performance, and public reactions.…”