Alternative Media and Nonlinear Mediated Debate: The Case of Variety Streamers

IF 1.7 3区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION
Joshua Atkinson
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AbstractPast research has noted that alternative media often facilitate debate between activists and advocates for political policies. However, such research does not typically address the processes for those debates. In recent years, political influencers have increasingly made debates important content in the alternative media they produce through streaming services. In 2021, I observed a debate between three influencers that took place through YouTube and Twitch. In this research project, I engaged in a qualitative content analysis of key texts, using concepts concerning debate from past political communication research. Specifically, I examined the pre-debate, debate and post-debate stages in order to identify different attacks, acclaims or defences utilised by the influencers. The findings, viewed through the lens of mediated construction of reality described by Couldry and Hepp, demonstrate that those linear stages established in past campaign research do not fully apply to the context of alternative media found on streaming services. Instead, this debate was a nonlinear process in which the “pre-debate” stage was actually the debate.Keywords: Alternative mediaStreaming servicesPolitical influencersMediated construction of realityDebate DISCLOSURE STATEMENTNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 None of the participants of this debate took part in the interviews that I conducted for my separate project.2 Ethan Klein no longer uploads videos to the H3H3 Productions channel on YouTube.3 Shortly after the debate, Klein discontinued the H3H3 Twitch channel.Additional informationNotes on contributorsJoshua AtkinsonJoshua Atkinson (corresponding author) is Professor of Communication in School of Media & Communication at College of Arts and Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.
另类媒体与非线性中介辩论:以各种流媒体为例
摘要过去的研究指出,另类媒体往往有助于政治政策的积极分子和倡导者之间的辩论。然而,这类研究通常不涉及这些辩论的过程。近年来,有政治影响力的人越来越多地将辩论作为他们通过流媒体服务制作的另类媒体的重要内容。在2021年,我通过YouTube和Twitch观察了三位有影响力的人之间的辩论。在这个研究项目中,我利用过去政治传播研究中关于辩论的概念,对关键文本进行了定性的内容分析。具体来说,我检查了辩论前、辩论和辩论后的阶段,以确定影响者使用的不同攻击、赞扬或防御。通过Couldry和Hepp描述的现实中介构建的视角来看,这些发现表明,过去竞选研究中建立的那些线性阶段并不完全适用于流媒体服务上发现的替代媒体背景。相反,这场辩论是一个非线性过程,其中“辩论前”阶段实际上是辩论。关键词:另类媒体流媒体服务政治影响现实的中介建构辩论披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。注1:这次辩论的参与者都没有参加我为我的单独项目进行的采访伊桑·克莱因不再向youtube上的H3H3制作频道上传视频辩论结束后不久,Klein关闭了Twitch的H3H3频道。作者简介:joshua Atkinson(通讯作者),美国鲍灵格林州立大学鲍灵格林艺术与科学学院媒体与传播学院传播学教授。
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Javnost-The Public
Javnost-The Public COMMUNICATION-
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期刊介绍: Javnost - The Public, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed social and cultural science journal published by the European Institute for Communication and Culture in association with the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, addresses problems of the public sphere on international and interdisciplinary levels. It encourages the development of theory and research, and helps understand differences between cultures. Contributors confront problems of the public, public communication, public opinion, public discourse, publicness, publicity, and public life from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.
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