Online Action in Campaign 2000: An Exploratory Analysis of the U.S. Political Web Sphere

Foot, Kirsten A.; Schneider, Steven M.

doi:10.1207/s15506878jobem4602_4

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“…They call for consideration of the Web as "a robust dimension of the U.S. public sphere." 30 Papacharissi suggests the heated nature of much online political discourse may extend the public sphere by providing a space for healthy disagreement. 31 The 2004 political campaign produced evidence of novel forms of citizen engagement in online political communication.…”

Section: Online Political Communicationmentioning

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Stepping Back from the Gate: Online Newspaper Editors and the Co-Production of Content in Campaign 2004

Singer

2006

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link STEPPING BACK FROM THE GATE: Online Newspaper Editors and the Co-Production of Content in Campaign 2004Jane B. Singer Abstract:In their coverage of the 2004 political campaign, editors of Web sites affiliated with major U.S. newspapers continued to emphasize their role as providers of credible information. But they moved toward seeing that information less as an end product than as a basis for user engagement, participation, and personalization. This study, which builds on a similar study conducted after the 2000 election, suggests journalists may be taking steps toward reshaping their gatekeeping role to accommodate the interactive nature of the Internet.Journalists see themselves as central to the democratic process. In the journalist's view of democracy, the notion of citizen sovereignty rests on the quality of information that those citizens possess -and it is up to journalists to provide it. 1 Giving citizens the information they need to be free and self-governing has been defined as the primary purpose of journalism. 2Editors have contributed to this process primarily through their role as gatekeepers, ensuring through their selection of content that "the community shall hear as a fact" only what the editor determines is suitable. 3 Yet the power of such gatekeepers seems to diminish in an modern information society. 4 The Internet defies the whole notion of a "gate" and challenges the idea that journalists (or anyone else) can or should limit what passes through it. At the same time, the sheer quantity of information online, along with its wildly varying quality, reinforces the need for someone to sort it out as well as to lend it credibility and, ideally, utility.Stepping Back: 2This article explores editors' reconceptualization of their gatekeeping role in the democratic process. It suggest that as they continue to "normalize" the Internet 5 as a vehicle for journalism, journalists still see themselves as a primary source of credible political information. But more of that information than in the past is explicitly intended as a starting point rather than an end product for audience members. Online editors are increasingly accommodating the interactive, participatory nature of the medium, simultaneously redefining and reaffirming their own space within it. To investigate this subject, the article presents and analyzes findings of a 2004 follow-up to a 2000 study of online newspapers' campaign coverage. The results indicate a continuing focus on providing information but suggest a growing emphasis on content that serves as the raw material for user participation and personalization. Literature ReviewPrevious work in several areas is relevant to this study. This section begins with an overview of how journalists have (or have not) taken advantage of the interactive capabilities of the Internet.Literature related to online political communication is then summariz...

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Section: Online Political Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stepping Back from the Gate: Online Newspaper Editors and the Co-Production of Content in Campaign 2004

Singer

2006

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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“…For example, because online social networks can potentially involve millions of individuals, researchers have attempted to describe their structure. Barabasi and Albert (1999) identified scale-free networks and power law distributions as characteristics of many digitally enabled networks, and others have followed by trying to describe the structure and processes involved in specific digitally enabled networks, such as open-source software development projects (Mockus et al 2002, Lakhani andvon Hippel 2003), massively multiplayer online games Moore 2004, Williams et al 2006), and political campaigns (Foot and Schneider 2002). The focus in much of this research is descriptive and exploratory, laying out how a new domain is structured and how it operates.…”

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Editorial Overview—The Interplay Between Digital and Social Networks

Agarwal

Gupta

Kraut

2008

Information Systems Research

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Social networks constructed on digital platforms are becoming increasingly pervasive in all aspects of individual and organizational life. This special issue of Information Systems Research includes 10 papers that focus on the interplay between digital and social networks. The interplay draws attention to the fact that digital interaction among individuals and organizations is almost always embedded in, influenced by, and in turn influences a social network. The papers in this special issue collectively shed light on the technical, behavioral, and economic challenges and implications of such networks and contribute to our understanding of how the power of such networks can be harnessed.

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“…Before undertaking an analysis, this study additionally reviews what rhetorical devices constitute carnivalistic discourse. A number of studies suggest that humor, satire, and parody are essential in a carnival (Bakhtin, 1963;Foot & Schneider, 2002;Mascha, 2008).…”

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Citizen news podcasts and engaging journalism: The formation of a counter-public sphere in South Korea

Park

2017

PJR

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Abstract:This study examines what roles citizen news podcasts of South Korea play, based on two unique concepts-carnivalism and engaging journalism. To this end, the current study content analysed the content of 11 citizen news podcasts that are most popular in this country and conducted interviews with 10 professional journalists. The findings reveal that through the use of comedic techniques such as humour, parody, and satire, the discourse of citizen podcasts transgresses existing social and cultural hierarchies and subverts a range of authoritative discourses by mainstream media. The analysis also finds that the discourse in citizen news podcasts takes on the nature of engaging journalism, which motivates ordinary individuals who are left largely disillusioned from mainstream journalism to engage in elitechallenging political action. Professional journalists admitted that citizen news podcasts provide an opportunity to re-evaluate the journalism norms and practices of South Korea.

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Online Action in Campaign 2000: An Exploratory Analysis of the U.S. Political Web Sphere

Cited by 100 publications

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Stepping Back from the Gate: Online Newspaper Editors and the Co-Production of Content in Campaign 2004

Stepping Back from the Gate: Online Newspaper Editors and the Co-Production of Content in Campaign 2004

Editorial Overview—The Interplay Between Digital and Social Networks

Citizen news podcasts and engaging journalism: The formation of a counter-public sphere in South Korea

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