Affec&ve  news  streams  and  networked  publics:  

mediality  and  engagement  on  #egypt  Zizi  Papacharissi,  PhD  

Professor  and  Head,  Communica&on,  University  of  Illinois-­‐Chicago  

@zizip    Papacharissi, Z. & Oliveira, de Fatima M. (2012). Affective News and Networked Publics: The Rhythms of News

Storytelling on #Egypt. Journal of Communication. Meraz, S. & Papacharissi, Z. (2012). Broadcasting and Listening Practices on #egypt: Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing. Paper presented at IAMCR, Durban, South Africa. Papacharissi, Z. & Meraz, S. (2012).The Rhythms of Occupy: Broadcasting and Listening Practices on #ows-IR13 Meraz, S. & Papacharissi, Z. (2012). Networked framing and gatekeeping on #ows - forthcoming

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•  TwiIer  and  news  storytelling  

•  Collec&vely  prodused  news  feeds  and  the  news  economy  

•  TwiIer  as  alterna&ve/primary  channel  for  informa&on  

 

•  TwiIer  as  news  repor&ng  mechanism  –  Established  news  values  guide  use  of  TwiIer  

–  News  breaking/premedia&on/instantaneity  

–  Homophily,  peripheral  awareness  and  ambient  news  environments,  hybridity    

•  TwiIer  as  news  sharing  mechanism  during  uprisings  –  Electronic  word  of  mouth  –  Broadcas&ng  and  ‘listening  in’  on  uprisings  

–  Homophily  and  group  iden&ty    

News  values  and  the  form  of  news  on  TwiIer  

•  News  values  •  The  form  of  news  as  specific  to  socio-­‐cultural  context    RQ1:  What  news  values  were  prevalent  in  the  TwiIer  news  streams  capturing  the  events  of  the  2011  Egyp&an  uprising?  RQ2:  What  form  did  news  storytelling  on  TwiIer    take  during  the  recent  2011  Egyp&an  uprising?    METHOD:    Frequency  analysis  (  R  ),  1.5  million  mul&lingual  tweets,  computerized  content  analysis  (seman&c,  addressivity  markers,  flow),  discourse  analysis  #egypt  

[news  values]  •  News  values  priori&se  stories  about  events  that  are  recent,  sudden,  unambiguous,  

predictable,  relevant  and  close  (to  the  relevant  culture/class/loca&on).  •  Priority  is  given  to  stories  about  the  economy,  government  poli&cs,  industry  and  

business,  foreign  affairs  and  domes&c  affairs-­‐either  of  conflict  or  human  interest-­‐  disasters  and  sport.  

•  Priority  is  given  to  elite  na&ons  (the  US,  the  UK,  Europe,  etc.)  and  elite  people.  •  News  values  ofen  involve  appeals  to  dominant  ideologies  and  discourses.  What  is  

cultural  and/or  historical  will  be  presented  as  natural  and  consensual.  •  News  stories  need  to  appeal  to  readers/viewers  so  they  must  be  commonsensical,  

entertaining  and  drama&c  (like  fic&on),  and  visual  (Hartley,  2002,  p.  166).  

News  values  turn  events  into  stories  

Hybridity  of  old  +  new  news  values  

Old  values  Large  scale  of  events,  closeness  to  home,  clarity  of  meaning,  short  &me  scale,  relevance,  consonance,  personifica&on,  significance,  drama,  ac&on  +++  it’s  all  there,  except  nega&vity  

Remedia-ons  and/or  new    values  (drama)  of  instantaneity  

Events  instantly  turn  into  stories  crowdsourced  elites  (networked  gatekeeping)  solidarity  (networked  framing)  ambience  Constancy  and  con&nuity  of  always  on  news  environment  with  a  pulse  of  its  own,  organic,  collec&ve  

   

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networked  gatekeeping:  connec&vity  

Affec&ve-­‐resigna&on  

Affec&ve-­‐most  

The  Form  of  Affec&ve  News  

Affect:  emo&ve  expressions/feeling  subjec&vely  experienced  connected  to  processes  of  premedia&on/an&cipa&on  of  events  prior  to  their  occurrence    •  Rhythm  and  pace  of  storytelling  

–  Instant,  emo&ve,  pha&c  •  Repe&&on  and  mimicry  set  the  pace  •  Oral  and  print  cultures  of  storytelling  combine    News,  fact,  drama,  opinion,  emo&on  blend  into  one  =  affect    

Affec&ve  news  streams  

Collabora&ve  news  feeds  expose  (temporal)  incompa&bili&es  between  live  twee&ng  news  and  news  repor&ng  =  many  journalisms    Leaderless  publics/revolu&ons?    Affect  and  news  storytelling,  affect  and  mobiliza&on  

Aferword  

Affec&ve  Publics  (Oxford  U  Press,  2013)  

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networked  gatekeeping:  reciprocal  &es