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"Watch out, organize, inform yourself!": Tracing the Dynamics of Twitter Discourse on Anti-Nazi Street Protests

[conference paper]

Dang-Anh, Mark
Eble, Michael

Corporate Editor
Association of Internet Researchers

Abstract

With the advent of mobile devices, mediatized political discourse became more dynamic. I assume that the microblog Twitter can be considered as a medium for spatial coordination during protests. Therefore, the case of neo-Nazi demonstrations and counter-protests in the city of Dresden that occurred ... view more

With the advent of mobile devices, mediatized political discourse became more dynamic. I assume that the microblog Twitter can be considered as a medium for spatial coordination during protests. Therefore, the case of neo-Nazi demonstrations and counter-protests in the city of Dresden that occurred in February 2012 is analysed. Data consists of microposts that occurred during the event. Quantitative analysis of hashtag and retweet frequencies was performed as well as qualitative speech act pattern analysis and a tempo-spatial discourse analysis on selected subsets of microposts. Results show that a common linguistic practice is verbal georeferencing and by that constructing space. Empirical analysis indicates a strong relation between communicational online space and physical offline place: Protest participants permanently reconfigure spatial context discursively and thus the contested protest area becomes a temporarily meaningful place.... view less

Keywords
protest; political communication; twitter; discourse analysis

Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Interactive, electronic Media

Conference
Annual AoIR Conference IR 14 "Resistance and Appropriation". Denver, 2013

Document language
English

Publication Year
2013

City
Denver

Page/Pages
5 p.

Series
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research

ISSN
2162-3317

Status
Published Version; reviewed

Licence
Basic Digital Peer Publishing Licence


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