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Joint Digital Storytelling on Twitter: Creative Appropriation in Political Deliberation
[conference paper]
Corporate Editor
Association of Internet Researchers
Abstract
This paper explores on the basis of empirical research, how patterns of interaction and argumentation in political discourse on Twitter evolve as translocal communities in the creative shape of “joint digital storytelling”. Joint storytelling embraces coordinated activities by multiple actors focusi... view more
This paper explores on the basis of empirical research, how patterns of interaction and argumentation in political discourse on Twitter evolve as translocal communities in the creative shape of “joint digital storytelling”. Joint storytelling embraces coordinated activities by multiple actors focusing on a shared topic. By adding personal information and evaluation, participants construct an open narrative format, which can be inviting and inspiring for others, who then join in with their own narratives. This model will be exemplified by analyzing a large amount of tweets (107,000) collected during a political conflict between proponents and adversaries of a local traffic project in Germany. Analysis is based on (1) the textual level, (2) the operative level (hashtags, @- and RT-Symbol, hyperlinks etc.) and (3) the visual level of storytelling (embedded photos, videos). Results show a new way of creating translocal online communities and political deliberation.... view less
Keywords
political participation; deliberation; social media; political communication; twitter; agenda setting function
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
digital storytelling
Conference
Annual AoIR Conference IR 14 "Resistance and Appropriation". Denver, 2013
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
City
Denver
Page/Pages
3 p.
Series
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
ISSN
2162-3317
Status
Published Version; reviewed