TY - GEN
T1 - Shepherding and censorship
T2 - 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2012
AU - Mascaro, Christopher M.
AU - Novak, Alison
AU - Goggins, Sean
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Political groups on social networking sites enable a new type of collaborative, political discourse among citizens. In this study, we show how political discourse in social media is distinct from prior studies of political groups on the Internet. Specifically, we use network analysis in combination with communication theory to examine conversational social networks that emerge from direct addressals between participants in 10 discussions on the Tea Party Patriots Facebook page associated with the shooting of US Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Our findings identify singling out of other participants as a key tactic for clarifying and questioning inaccurate information; apply social network analysis to identify different behaviors between networks and describe the elimination of dissent from the Tea Party Patriots Facebook page over time. Important questions of how users experience political discourse online, including the impact of the traceless removal of discourse by group administrators are framed in the conclusion.
AB - Political groups on social networking sites enable a new type of collaborative, political discourse among citizens. In this study, we show how political discourse in social media is distinct from prior studies of political groups on the Internet. Specifically, we use network analysis in combination with communication theory to examine conversational social networks that emerge from direct addressals between participants in 10 discussions on the Tea Party Patriots Facebook page associated with the shooting of US Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Our findings identify singling out of other participants as a key tactic for clarifying and questioning inaccurate information; apply social network analysis to identify different behaviors between networks and describe the elimination of dissent from the Tea Party Patriots Facebook page over time. Important questions of how users experience political discourse online, including the impact of the traceless removal of discourse by group administrators are framed in the conclusion.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2012.528
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2012.528
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84857948552
SN - 9780769545257
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 2563
EP - 2572
BT - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS-45
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 4 January 2012 through 7 January 2012
ER -