Tweeting #Palestine: Twitter and the mediation of Palestine

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doi:10.1177/1367877913503865

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“…The vast quantities of data generated by social media, combined with the dynamic nature of their form, can present significant ‘methodological challenges’ (Siapera, 2014: 544). For the purposes of this study, we downloaded a sample set of data, which might reasonably be expected to return sentiments from one or more non-prevailing narratives.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenging prevailing narratives with Twitter: An #AustraliaDay case study of participation, representation and elimination of voice in an archive

Fransen-Taylor

Narayan

2018

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Social Media, specifically a microblogging service such as Twitter, is a public space that has changed how we interact with, exchange, and respond to information in a civil society. It also has the potential to give public voice to minority narratives that are under-represented in the mainstream media, just as grassroots graffiti in public spaces has done over human history. Using a specific case study around an issue in the Australian national discourse around Australia Day, this study contributes new insights towards an understanding of how alternate narratives are expressed and erased in cyberspace, just as graffiti is erased from public view by the authorities. Widely promoted by official sources as a day of festivity and celebration, the Australia Day Your Way initiative actively promotes the use of the hashtag #AustraliaDay to metatag tweets for capture to an annual time capsule stored by the National Museum of Australia. For Australia's indigenous minority though, Australia Day is symbolic of an entirely different narrative, expressed online through the hashtags #InvasionDay and #SurvivalDay. We studied all three hashtags and their intersections on Twitter and also compared this data to what was showcased in the official time capsule. We found that although the alternative voices existed on Twitter, they were excluded from the official time capsule. This has implications for both archives and for future historians studying contemporary events.

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confidence: 99%

Challenging prevailing narratives with Twitter: An #AustraliaDay case study of participation, representation and elimination of voice in an archive

Fransen-Taylor

Narayan

2018

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…93-94, 117; Bunt, 2009, p. 263; Nabulsi, 2014, pp. 105-106; Siapera, 2014, p. 543; Tawil-Souri & Aouragh, 2014, p. 121). Events such as the 2008–2009 War in Gaza and the subsequent Goldstone Report, as well as the “Flotillas for Gaza” movement all played a role not only in increasing support for BDS internationally, but also increasing Palestinian use of the Internet and social media for activism and organizing (Nabulsi, 2014, p. 106).…”

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confidence: 99%

Social Media Rhetoric of the Transnational Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement

Hitchcock

2016

Social Media + Society

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This article uses rhetorical analysis to determine the effectiveness and characteristics of social media usage by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel. Hundreds of local student, community, and religious groups in the United States use social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook to promote BDS discourse and organize local BDS-related events. Even though social media platforms are important for an international movement composed of a very dispersed population, with millions of Palestinians also living under military occupation, the history of traditional media use during the First Intifada also suggests that social media are not necessary for mobilizing Palestinians at the local level. A preliminary rhetorical analysis of several BDS-related Facebook pages and Twitter accounts reveals that the BDS movement's social media usage functions similarly in some ways to other contemporary mass movements by facilitating on-the-ground actions and delivering useful information to supporters. BDS movement social media discourse, however, does not establish the same level of emotional connection or interactivity with audiences as some other recent movements have, but these limitations can be partly explained by the unique political, material, and rhetorical constraints of the situation.

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“…Through such collective action, and the influence of elite users with large followerships, loosely defined, but nonetheless relatively stable, narrative constellations – groups of tweets loosely bound together through the repetition of keywords and hashtags and connections established through networks of retweeting and favouriting – emerge over time. Discussing the articulation of Palestine on Twitter, for example, Siapera (2013) argues that ‘ the narrative on Palestine is co-constructed, often in real time, by a host of produsers who tweet from their own position and perspective’ (p. 552) (my emphasis). From this perspective, many people, often with different or even conflicting agendas (Papacharissi, 2015a: 80), may contribute to the storytelling process, but the result is nonetheless purportedly a single, recognisable narrative.…”

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confidence: 99%

Narrative and interpretation on Twitter: Reading tweets by telling stories

Sadler

2017

New Media & Society

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Existing research on communication on Twitter has largely ignored the question of how users make sense of the fragmentary tweets with which they are presented. Focusing on the use of Twitter for political reporting in post-revolutionary Egypt, this article argues that the production of mental stories provides readers with a mechanism for interpreting the meaning of individual tweets in terms of their relationships to other material. Drawing on contemporary narratology, it argues that Twitter exhibits key elements of narrativity, but that a creative reading process is nonetheless required to transform this incipient narrativity into coherent, sense-making mental narratives. This foregrounding of the reader’s creative role makes stories on Twitter highly fluid and dynamic. Through reference to classic critical theory, I propose that this nonetheless represents an evolution rather than a radical break from earlier forms of narrative reception, which in many cases demanded similarly creative reading practices.

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Tweeting #Palestine: Twitter and the mediation of Palestine

Cited by 18 publications

References 22 publications

Challenging prevailing narratives with Twitter: An #AustraliaDay case study of participation, representation and elimination of voice in an archive

Challenging prevailing narratives with Twitter: An #AustraliaDay case study of participation, representation and elimination of voice in an archive

Social Media Rhetoric of the Transnational Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement

Narrative and interpretation on Twitter: Reading tweets by telling stories

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