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‘Our words are stronger’ : re-enforcing boundaries through ritual work in a terrorist news event
2020
This article investigates the ritual work in terrorist news events, using the Berlin truck attack as a case in point. The article connects with the larger cluster of anthropologically inspired communication research on media events as public rituals in news media and applies digital media ethnography as its method. Fieldwork is conducted in 15 online news sites. The article identifies three key phases through which the ritual work was carried out: the rupture in the news event (ritualised as the strike), the liminal phase (ritualised as the manhunt) and the reconstitution of order following the attack (ritualised as the mourning). The article concludes with an interpretation of the broader …
Dissertation: “In the intersection of television and Twitter : Social television as a tool for interaction and participation in a media event”
2020
This dissertation presents the phenomenon of social television by focusing on the interplay between the traditional broadcast media and the newer social media in the context of the FIFA World Cup. The aim of the study is to shed light on interactional practices that are generated in the intersection of television and Twitter. Through the lens of digital discourse and conversation analysis the study examines how the participation in a media event is constructed in live tweeting practices. The dissertation shows that social media have offered new ways of participating and enjoying television content but have not replaced the role of traditional television as a central medium for experiencing …
(Re)constuire la temporalité d’un événement médiatique sur Twitter : une étude contrastive
2016
International audience; En examinant la temporalité d’un « événement » sur Twitter, à travers les tweets d’acteurs politiques dans quatre pays, cette étude contribue à enrichir notre compréhension du processus de médiatisation de la communication politique via les réseaux socio-numériques. A partir des traces laissées sur le réseau par ses utilisateurs, la contribution cherche à identifier un « événement » médiaté qui se manifesterait dans des discours des acteurs politiques comparés à la twittosphère. This study proposes to enrich our understanding of the mediatization of political communication via digital social networks, by examining the temporality of an “event” on Twitter, through the…
“Congratulations, you’re on TV!”: Middle-space performances of live tweeters during the FIFA World Cup
2018
Social television has transformed the traditional role of the television viewers by providing ‘ordinary people’ access to the public stage. This article describes how public access to television affected the dialogues of Finnish tweeters on Twitter during the massive media event of the FIFA World Cup. Through the lens of digital conversation analysis, the study shows how the media publicity of tweets changed the direction of the interaction between tweeters and transformed their roles vis-à-vis the television show, making one of them into a ‘media flasher’ and the others viewers of his or her performance. The publicity was constructed as important through noticings, congratulations, and com…