Liveness redux: on media and their claim to be live

Es, Karin van

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“…On the other hand, the audience experience of hearing the news ‘live’ is a social construct. It is the product of ‘hidden production care-structures’ (Scannell, 2014) by broadcasters that foster a particular relationship with audiences and a sense of urgency (van Es, 2017). Scannell (2014) describes a sense of co-presence between news actors and audiences that may result, in which a group, even a nation, is brought together in the now.…”

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“…Broader scholarly discussions over the nature of liveness in news media provide useful insights on the relationship between the temporality of live blogging and claims to truth. van Es (2017) notes that live media can, on one hand, be understood in technical terms as producing real-time information. On the other hand, the audience experience of hearing the news 'live' is a social construct.…”

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“…Van Es (2017) notes that live media can, on the one hand, be understood in technical terms as producing real-time information. On the other hand, the audience experience of hearing the news live is a social construct.…”

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The epistemology of live blogging

Matheson

Wahl‐Jorgensen

2020

New Media & Society

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This article proposes a typology of the epistemology of live blogging through an analysis of two live news blogs: Radio New Zealand (RNZ) News’ live blog of a significant earthquake in Aotearoa New Zealand in November 2016 and BBC News’ live blog of the Brexit referendum result in June 2016. We use these cases to draw out five features of the genre that we suggest may characterise other live news blogs. We demonstrate that these blogs tend to (1) produce a fragmentary narrative that (2) reflects particular moments in time, (3) curate an array of textual objects from a range of information sources to produce ‘networked balance’, (4) gain coherence from an often informal authorial voice or voices and (5) generate claims to knowledge of events which are simultaneously dynamic and fragile. This typology contributes to understanding journalism’s position within networked information spaces.

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The epistemology of live blogging

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Wahl‐Jorgensen

2020

New Media & Society

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“…Van Es (2017) has argued that liveness is particularly relevant in the contemporary media context: from the revival of live broadcasting of public events to live video streaming through Facebook Live and Twitch. Building on the work of Couldry (2004) and Scannell (2001), she maintains: 'What live media share is that they establish that something needs to be attended to now rather than later' (Van Es, 2017, p. 1249. Similar to how Weltevrede and colleagues conceptualize real-time, 'liveness' needs to be seen as a configuration that 'is the product of an interaction among media institutions, technologies and viewers/users' (Van Es, 2017, p. 1250.…”

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Social media, temporality, and the legitimacy of protest

Poell

2019

Social Movement Studies

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This article examines how the rise of social media affects the temporal relations of protest communication. Following a relational approach, it traces how regimes of temporality are constructed and transformed through the entanglement between media infrastructures, institutions, and practices. These regimes involve particular 'speeds' -the rate at which media content is renewedas well as 'temporal orientations' towards present, past, and future. The article questions how specific temporal regimes enable or complicate protestors' efforts to gain public legitimacy. A large body of research suggests that it is difficult to gain such legitimacy in the mainstream news cycle, in which protest is primarily covered from an 'episodic' perspective, ignoring larger protest issues. The present analysis suggests that despite the participatory affordances of social media, it has not become any easier to generate sustained public attention for structural protest issues. Drawing examples from three case studies, it demonstrates that the dominant mode of social media protest communication reproduces and reinforces the episodic focus of the mainstream news. While other temporal perspectives on protest are certainly developed in the alternative and mainstream news, as well as in activist social media communication, these do not fundamentally challenge the prevailing temporal orientation towards the present, towards the event.ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…These are intimately linked with ongoing reconfigurations of time, such as 'network time' (Hassan, 2007), 'Internet time' (Karpf, 2012), 'event time' (Adkins, 2009), 'real time ' (van Es, 2017;Weltevrede et al, 2014), and 'social media time' (Kaun and Stiernstedt, 2014), challenging the industrial-era dominance of mechanical 'clock time'. Kaun andStiernstedt (2014: 1155) used 'social media time' as an analytical framework to better grasp the specific ways in which the platforms organise and structure users' time.…”

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At close quarters: Combatting Facebook design, features and temporalities in social research

Gangneux

Docherty

2018

Big Data & Society

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As researchers we often find ourselves grappling with social media platforms and data 'at close quarters'. Although social media platforms were created for purposes other than academic research-which are apparent in their architecture and temporalities-they offer opportunities for researchers to repurpose them for the collection, generation and analysis of rich datasets. At the same time, this repurposing raises an evolving range of practical and methodological challenges at the small and large scale. We draw on our experiences and empirical data from two research projects, one using Facebook Community Pages and the other repurposing Facebook Activity Logs. This article reflects critically on the specific challenges we faced using these platform features, on their common roots, and the tactics we adopted in response. De Certeau's distinction between strategy and tactics provides a useful framework for exploring these struggles as located in the practice of doing social research-which often ends up being tactical. This article argues that we have to collectively discuss, demystify and devise tactics to mitigate the strategies and temporalities deeply embedded in platforms, corresponding as far as possible to the temporalities and the aims of our research. Although combat at close quarters is inevitable in social media research, dialogue between researchers is more than ever needed to tip the scales in our favour.

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Liveness redux: on media and their claim to be live

Cited by 37 publications

References 15 publications

The epistemology of live blogging

The epistemology of live blogging

Social media, temporality, and the legitimacy of protest

At close quarters: Combatting Facebook design, features and temporalities in social research

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