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Discontinued Public Spheres? Reproducibility of User Structure in Twitter Discussions on Inter-ethnic Conflicts. / Smoliarova, Anna S.; Bodrunova, Svetlana S.; Blekanov, Ivan S.; Maksimov, Alexey.
HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Posters - 22nd International Conference, HCII 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Constantine Stephanidis; Margherita Antona; Stavroula Ntoa. Springer Nature, 2020. p. 262-269 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1293).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Discontinued Public Spheres? Reproducibility of User Structure in Twitter Discussions on Inter-ethnic Conflicts
AU - Smoliarova, Anna S.
AU - Bodrunova, Svetlana S.
AU - Blekanov, Ivan S.
AU - Maksimov, Alexey
N1 - Funding Information: The research has been supported in full by the Russian Science Foundation, grant 16-18-10125-P. Publisher Copyright: © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Recently, communication scholars have paid attention to the growing dissonant and dissipative character of the public spheres, especially in their connection to networked discursive spaces. While substantial dissonance of the discussions is well addressed, structural discontinuity of public discussion remains under-explored. Reproducibility of the discussions on similar issues or events in time, we argue, needs to be seen as a marker of stability of public spheres. In this paper, we compare the user and influencer structure of two similar discussions on German Twitter of 2016 (the Cologne mass harassment) and 2019 (the Chemnitz killing). We show that the overall reproducibility of the discussions is extremely low, and the only structural element that reproduces are influential media, mostly of national reach. But even the stability of media presence must be questioned, as both intensity of their presence within the discussion and user engagement with their tweets varies much from one discussion to the other. Thus, one may conclude that the structural stability of public discussion of similar events on Twitter is not reached.
AB - Recently, communication scholars have paid attention to the growing dissonant and dissipative character of the public spheres, especially in their connection to networked discursive spaces. While substantial dissonance of the discussions is well addressed, structural discontinuity of public discussion remains under-explored. Reproducibility of the discussions on similar issues or events in time, we argue, needs to be seen as a marker of stability of public spheres. In this paper, we compare the user and influencer structure of two similar discussions on German Twitter of 2016 (the Cologne mass harassment) and 2019 (the Chemnitz killing). We show that the overall reproducibility of the discussions is extremely low, and the only structural element that reproduces are influential media, mostly of national reach. But even the stability of media presence must be questioned, as both intensity of their presence within the discussion and user engagement with their tweets varies much from one discussion to the other. Thus, one may conclude that the structural stability of public discussion of similar events on Twitter is not reached.
KW - Chemnitz
KW - Cologne
KW - Computer-mediated communication
KW - Conflictual discussion
KW - Discussion structure
KW - Germany
KW - Influencer
KW - Inter-ethnic conflict
KW - Media on Twitter
KW - Public sphere
KW - Twitter
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-60700-5_34
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-60700-5_34
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85097061721
SN - 9783030606992
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 262
EP - 269
BT - HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Posters - 22nd International Conference, HCII 2020, Proceedings
A2 - Stephanidis, Constantine
A2 - Antona, Margherita
A2 - Ntoa, Stavroula
PB - Springer Nature
T2 - 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2020
Y2 - 19 July 2020 through 24 July 2020
ER -
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