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Social networking sites as embedded tools of political communication : an innovative form of communication about Europe ? An analysis of practices and uses of Twitter and Facebook in the European Parliament
No full textThe objective of this paper is to assess whether the use of social networking-sites by political actors at the European level presents some form of media and communication innovation. The lack of EU legitimacy is often viewed as a communication deficit (De Vreese & al, 2006; Meyer, 1999), and therefore Meyer highlights the role of political communication in legitimating governance. More recently, taking into account the evolution of communication tools, Blumler and Coleman (2010:147) note that “with the emergence and evolution of the Internet, in its many shapes and guises, there has been a range of hopes and speculations about its redemptive potential”. At the European level, this belief is even stronger. Thus Lilleker and Koc-Michalska (2011) emphasize the potential the Internet offers for legitimizing the European Parliament as a democratic institution. This presentation proposes to examine whether new public and political communicative spaces are emerging in the European Parliament as a result of the use of Internet, and more specifically social networking-sites, by political actors. Coleman and Moss consider three communicative characteristics of the blogs which all relate to impression management (Goffman, 1959): “politicians attempts to seem like ordinary people” (Coleman and Moss, 2008:9), they develop relationships with citizens which are live, spontaneous and direct, they are both “conversing with and listening to the public” (Coleman and Moss, 2008:9). All those three characteristics are today attributed to social media platforms by academics. Therefore there is an injunction for political actors to use web 2.0 tools in order to interact with citizens and allow a deliberative democracy to emerge. My presentation looks at the use of two social networking-sites (Twitter and Facebook) by Members of the European Parliament (MEP). The approach is original in that it focuses on MEPs’ usages and practices “behind the scene” of Internet. Drawing on a significant number of interviews with MEPs and political assistants but also on participant observation in the field between 2010 and 2012, it aims at better understanding how MEPs are integrating SNS into their everyday routines and whether and how it changes communicational patterns, both inside and outside the organization and political work. Doing so, it questions the relationships between professional politicians and journalists as well as the notions of e-discussion and interactivity. Given the scope of this research, the theoretical framework integrates both a political communication approach as well as a more sociological approach to mediated communication and the Internet. My research highlights how the injunction of interpersonal communication is imposed on MEPs and how it leads to the re-arrangement of the political and communicational skills and tasks within MEPs teams. It shows that web 2.0 tools do not fundamentally alter political action and communication but rather fit into a larger apparatus of various tools with distinctive objectives. Social networking-sites are embedded in a more comprehensive approach to communication, aiming at articulating various types of discourses of MEPs and adjusting language to audiences on a single platform.The objective of this paper is to assess whether the use of social networking-sites by political actors at the European level presents some form of media and communication innovation. The lack of EU legitimacy is often viewed as a communication deficit (De Vreese & al, 2006; Meyer, 1999), and therefore Meyer highlights the role of political communication in legitimating governance. More recently, taking into account the evolution of communication tools, Blumler and Coleman (2010:147) note that “with the emergence and evolution of the Internet, in its many shapes and guises, there has been a range of hopes and speculations about its redemptive potential”. At the European level, this belief is even stronger. Thus Lilleker and Koc-Michalska (2011) emphasize the potential the Internet offers for legitimizing the European Parliament as a democratic institution. This presentation proposes to examine whether new public and political communicative spaces are emerging in the European Parliament as a result of the use of Internet, and more specifically social networking-sites, by political actors. Coleman and Moss consider three communicative characteristics of the blogs which all relate to impression management (Goffman, 1959): “politicians attempts to seem like ordinary people” (Coleman and Moss, 2008:9), they develop relationships with citizens which are live, spontaneous and direct, they are both “conversing with and listening to the public” (Coleman and Moss, 2008:9). All those three characteristics are today attributed to social media platforms by academics. Therefore there is an injunction for political actors to use web 2.0 tools in order to interact with citizens and allow a deliberative democracy to emerge. My presentation looks at the use of two social networking-sites (Twitter and Facebook) by Members of the European Parliament (MEP). The approach is original in that it focuses on MEPs’ usages and practices “behind the scene” of Internet. Drawing on a significant number of interviews with MEPs and political assistants but also on participant observation in the field between 2010 and 2012, it aims at better understanding how MEPs are integrating SNS into their everyday routines and whether and how it changes communicational patterns, both inside and outside the organization and political work. Doing so, it questions the relationships between professional politicians and journalists as well as the notions of e-discussion and interactivity. Given the scope of this research, the theoretical framework integrates both a political communication approach as well as a more sociological approach to mediated communication and the Internet. My research highlights how the injunction of interpersonal communication is imposed on MEPs and how it leads to the re-arrangement of the political and communicational skills and tasks within MEPs teams. It shows that web 2.0 tools do not fundamentally alter political action and communication but rather fit into a larger apparatus of various tools with distinctive objectives. Social networking-sites are embedded in a more comprehensive approach to communication, aiming at articulating various types of discourses of MEPs and adjusting language to audiences on a single platform
#Mitigatecorona : news repertoires and civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textThe present study aims to shed light on the different types of civic participation that emerged after the COVID-19 outbreak. Specifically, we assess how different news use patterns (or news repertoires) are associated with various forms of civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online survey was distributed among Flemish adults, using a stratified sampling procedure. In total, 1.500 adults (50.4% male; M age = 41.58, SD = 13.94) participated in the period April 17 to 19, 2020. Results from a cluster analysis revealed four distinct news use clusters, each differing in terms of intensity of news use, as well as diversity in news sources: news avoiders, news conservatives, news mixers and news absorbers. Furthermore, a series of ANOVAs revealed significant between-group differences concerning civic participation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, news absorbers were more likely to engage in civic participation than any of the other groups
2023 ECREA PolComm Berlin
No full textRinke, E. M., & Moy, P. (2023, September 1). Political correlates of interpersonal listening styles. biannual conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Political Communication Section, Berlin, Germany
What factors explain the professionalization of political campaigning? Evidence from a comparison between Swiss cantonal elections. Comparing Political Communication Across Time and Space. Conference of the ECREA Political Communication Section, Madrid, 20.-21. Oktober 2011
No full text2023 ECREA PolComm Berlin
No full textRinke, E. M., & Moy, P. (2023, September 1). Political correlates of interpersonal listening styles. biannual conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Political Communication Section, Berlin, Germany
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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