More than a mob: Parler as preparatory media for the U.S. Capitol storming
More than a mob: Parler as preparatory media for the U.S. Capitol storming
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不仅仅是暴徒：帕勒是美国国会大厦袭击的准备媒体
作者：
Luke Munn
2021年1月6日，美国国会大厦遭暴徒袭击。然而，尽管mob意味着一个混乱和分散的群体，但网络媒体已经在努力为它提供“足够”的凝聚力，将其转变为一个更危险的政治团体。本文通过研究“言论自由”社交媒体网络Parler来概念化这种筹备媒体，从袭击发生前的几天（包括袭击发生前的几天）收集了350，000个帖子。这些材料实证地展示了媒体如何在不同的阵营之间建立联系，煽动参与者进行暴力活动，并将这种攻击合法化为道德甚至精神攻击。筹备媒体框架事件，建立目标，并设置议程，提供一定程度的秩序，并反对网上的分裂。这种暂时的稳定有助于建立一个更加动员和有组织的公共机构。而不是亲社会或解放，国会大厦风暴显示了这项工作的黑暗潜力。了解媒体的这一角色并在这些逻辑中进行干预，是防止未来攻击的一个组成部分。
On 6 January 2021, a violent mob attacked the United States Capitol. Yet while mob suggests a chaotic and fragmented crowd, networked media had already been working to provide it with “just enough” cohesion, transforming it into a more dangerous political body. This article conceptualizes this preparatory media by examining the “free speech” social media network Parler, drawing on a corpus of ∼350,000 posts from the days leading up to and including the attack. This material empirically demonstrates how media worked to forge connections between disparate camps, to incite participants toward violent activity, and to legitimize this attack as moral or even spiritual. Preparatory media frames events, establishes targets, and sets agendas, providing a degree of order and working against disaggregation online. This temporary stabilization contributes to a more mobilized and organized public body. Rather than prosocial or emancipatory, the Capitol storming demonstrates the far darker potential of this work. Understanding this role of media and intervening within these logics provides one component for preventing future attacks.