Öffentlichkeitswandel durch Social Media – Auswirkungen der Plattformisierung auf die gesellschaftliche Vermittlungsstruktur

Jarren, Otfried

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“…Consequently, Facebook actively shapes the flow of information through the structure and working logic of the algorithmic system and the design of interaction possibilities that governs its platform. However, Facebook has conceived itself as an intermediary actor (Jarren, 2021) and has an economic orientation (Napoli & Caplan, 2017). It neither fulfills journalistic tasks nor norms, such as balancing the different degrees of activity and providing a balanced flow of information.…”

Section: Mobilization and User Engagement In Political Campaignsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social media platforms such as Facebook, search engines, and user-generated content portals can be qualified as intermediated channels. They enable content but do not create original content (Jarren, 2021). Hence, they guarantee political campaigns control over the content of the message to a large extent (Hänggli, 2020, p. 32)apart from content moderation for illegal content, content selection via user preferences, news gatekeeping processes, and the dynamics of platforms (Van Dijck et al, 2018).…”

Section: Partisanship In Mobilization and User Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Who speaks and who is heard on Facebook? Political mobilization and engagement patterns of partisanship and gender in Switzerland’s direct democracy

Maitra

Hänggli

2023

JQD

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This descriptive study investigates political mobilization and user engagement patterns on Facebook and associated partisan and gender discrepancies. It focuses on Switzerland, where political actors frequently seek to mobilize and shape citizens’ opinions before direct-democratic voting on wide-ranging policy issues. Using digital trace data from CrowdTangle, the analysis focuses on the posting frequency and received user interactions of 770 Swiss political actors’ Facebook pages. The analysis period covers 20 months, from November 2019 to July 2021, during which five popular votes occurred, and the sampled FB pages published more than 226,000 posts and received more than 18,000,000 user interactions. A descriptive quantitative analysis and a multiple regression analysis revealed an overall skewed pattern: Mobilization and user engagement are driven by small subsets of highly active and interacted-with FB pages. A few FB pages of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party and male politicians receive highly disproportionate user engagement – relative to more centrist parties and female politicians – but also relative to their electoral share in the national parliament. The results show that only a few dominant political voices are widely heard on Facebook, even if many speak. These insights are of interest beyond Switzerland, as Facebook and other social media platforms shape political discourse across liberal democracies.

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Section: Mobilization and User Engagement In Political Campaignsmentioning

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Section: Partisanship In Mobilization and User Engagementmentioning

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Who speaks and who is heard on Facebook? Political mobilization and engagement patterns of partisanship and gender in Switzerland’s direct democracy

Maitra

Hänggli

2023

JQD

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“…This not only opens up a wide range of opportunities for professional civic education practitioners. It also creates new power structures in communication: new ways to articulate information, demands, and opinions and to participate in the public discourse ( Jarren, 2021 ). So, it is not only professionals who are engaged in civic education on social media.…”

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What means civic education in a digitalized world?

Schmitt,

Baake,

Kero

2024

Front. Psychol.

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The hope of reaching diverse and large target groups has motivated civic education practitioners to offer their content on social media. The question has therefore long ceased to be whether civic education should take place on the internet, but rather how civic education goals can be implemented digitally to foster civic literacy. At first glance, the possibility of reaching a broad audience in a short time seems tempting. At a second glance, social media reveals several challenges that can impair educational processes. The present paper discusses the following questions: What are the opportunities and pitfalls of civic education in social media? How can we ensure successful civic education in a digitalized world? In our article, we want to provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the topic by drawing among others from the literature in the fields of media psychology, communication studies, and education science. By integrating insights from various disciplines, our paper seeks to enrich the academic dialogue and to promote a nuanced understanding of the evolving dynamics of civic education in the digital realm. With its practical focus, our paper further aims to underscore the applicability of scientific research.

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“…Entsprechend scheint es auch für die Journalismusforschung bedeutsam, Automatisierung der Kommunikation nicht nur mit Blick auf Automatisierung im Journalismus zu betrachten, sondern auch mit Blick auf Automa-tisierung in der Umwelt des Journalismus, die offensichtlich darauf ausgerichtet ist, die journalistische Aufmerksamkeit für "Öffentlichkeitsresonanz" (Fürst 2013; Fürst und Oehmer 2018) auszunutzen. Notwendig ist hierfür eine analytische Sensibilität für die wechselseitigen Beobachtungsverhältnisse zwischen publizistischen Medien und sozialen Medien, wie sie auch in der öffentlichkeitstheoretischen Diskussion um einen digitalen Strukturwandel der Kommunikation thematisiert werden (Eisenegger et al 2021;Fürst 2021a;Jarren 2021). Beiträge in diesem Diskussionszusammenhang stellen heraus, dass Öffentlichkeit heute in einem "hybriden Mediensystem" (Chadwick 2013) hergestellt wird, in dem komplexe Wechselbeziehungen zwischen verschiedenen Arenen und Ebenen der Öffentlichkeit existieren 9 .…”

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Socialbots at the Gates. Plädoyer für eine holistische Perspektive auf automatisierte Akteure in der Umwelt des Journalismus

Muhle¹

2022

M&K

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Automatisierung ist in den vergangenen Jahren zunehmend in den Fokus der Journalismusforschung gerückt. Allerdings interessiert sich diese bisher vor allem für Automatisierung im Journalismus, aber nicht für Automatisierung in der Umwelt des Journalismus. Der vorliegende Beitrag nimmt sich zum Ziel, dies zu ändern, indem er im Anschluss an Forderungen nach einer holistischen Journalismusforschung dafür argumentiert auch sog. Socialbots, die in der Umwelt des Journalismus in sozialen Medien aktiv sind, zum Gegenstand der Journalismusforschung zu machen. Grundlage hierfür ist die Vermutung, dass die Aktivitäten von Socialbots nicht in erster Linie auf die direkte Beeinflussung von Social-Media-Nutzer*innen zielen, sondern auf die Beeinflussung von Prozessen öffentlicher Themensetzung und Meinungsbildung in einem zunehmend hybriden Mediensystem, in dem sich dauerhafte Interdependenzen zwischen sozialen Medien und traditionellen publizistischen Medien etabliert haben. In dieser Hinsicht erscheinen dann auch Journalist*innen als primäre Adressat*innen von Socialbots, die als interessierte Dritte aufmerksam das kommunikative Geschehen in sozialen Medien beobachten und auswerten.

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Öffentlichkeitswandel durch Social Media – Auswirkungen der Plattformisierung auf die gesellschaftliche Vermittlungsstruktur

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

Who speaks and who is heard on Facebook? Political mobilization and engagement patterns of partisanship and gender in Switzerland’s direct democracy

Who speaks and who is heard on Facebook? Political mobilization and engagement patterns of partisanship and gender in Switzerland’s direct democracy

What means civic education in a digitalized world?

Socialbots at the Gates. Plädoyer für eine holistische Perspektive auf automatisierte Akteure in der Umwelt des Journalismus

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