Social media as a catalyst for online deliberation? Exploring the affordances of Facebook and YouTube for political expression
Social media as a catalyst for online deliberation? Exploring the affordances of Facebook and YouTube for political expression
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DOI：
10.1016/j.chb.2012.10.008
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发表时间：
2013-05-01
影响因子：
9.9
通讯作者：
Gibbs, Jennifer
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作者：
Halpern, Daniel;Gibbs, Jennifer
这份手稿旨在评估社交媒体作为促进民主审议的渠道的潜力。它通过检查公民在白宫管理的两个最常用的社交媒体渠道--Facebook和YouTube--上保持的讨论类型是否符合协商民主的必要条件来做到这一点。为此目的，根据为评估哈贝马斯工作产生的在线话语而制定的指标，对7230条信息进行了分析和评估。通过对比在可识别性和网络信息获取方面不同的社交媒体渠道(这两个传统的在线审议预测指标)，我们寻求对社交媒体及其对审议的影响有更深的理解。根据计算机媒介传播和网络理论的社会认同/去个性化(侧面)模型，我们预测Facebook上的政治讨论将在讨论者之间呈现出更平等的评论分布和更高水平的礼貌信息。与我们的理论框架一致的是，研究结果证实，Facebook将信息流扩展到其他网络，使用户之间能够进行更对称的对话，而在匿名和去个性化的YouTube中，礼貌程度更低。(C)2012爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
This manuscript aims to assess the potential of social media as a channel to foster democratic deliberation. It does this by examining whether the types of discussions that citizens maintain in two of the most used social media channels managed by the White House - Facebook and YouTube - meet the necessary conditions for deliberative democracy. For this purpose 7230 messages were analyzed and assessed in terms of indicators developed to evaluate online discourse derived from the work of Habermas. By contrasting social media channels that differ in the affordances of identifiability and networked information access (two traditional predictors of online deliberation), we seek to contribute a deeper understanding of social media and its impact on deliberation. Drawing on the social identification/deindividuation (SIDE) model of computer mediated communication and network theories, we predict that political discussions in Facebook will present a more egalitarian distribution of comments between discussants and higher level of politeness in their messages. Consistent with our theoretical framework, results confirm that Facebook expands the flow of information to other networks and enables more symmetrical conversations among users, whereas politeness is lower in the more anonymous and deindividuated YouTube. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.