Playing with the News on Reddit: The Politics Game on r/The_Donald

IF 3.5 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI:10.1093/ips/olae015

Robert Topinka, Cassian Osborne-Carey, Alan Finlayson

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Abstract

Research into online forms of far-right, alt-right, populist, and supremacist politics has raised questions about the extent to which social media enables or constitutes extremist affects and ideologies. Building on this research and through a case study of how a pro-Trump community on Reddit made sense of news events and sought to contest their representation, this paper explores the relationship between games and politics, arguing that digital platforms encourage people to apprehend, interpret, and contest political ideas and information as if engaged in a kind of videogame. We show how the group sought to manipulate platform affordances, waging a kind of Info War rooted in an understanding of politics as a pure space of conflict. We show how social media orients people to politics, phenomenologically, through the logics, structures and narratives of online games and argue that this affects not only online behaviors but more general apprehensions of politics.

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玩转 Reddit 上的新闻：r/The_Donald上的政治游戏

对极右翼、另类右翼、民粹主义和至上主义政治的网络形式的研究提出了社交媒体在多大程度上促成或构成极端主义影响和意识形态的问题。本文以这一研究为基础，通过对 Reddit 上一个支持特朗普的社区如何理解新闻事件并试图质疑其代表性的案例研究，探讨了游戏与政治之间的关系，认为数字平台鼓励人们像参与一种电子游戏一样去理解、解释和质疑政治观点和信息。我们展示了该团体如何试图操纵平台功能，发动一种信息战争，将政治理解为纯粹的冲突空间。我们展示了社交媒体如何通过网络游戏的逻辑、结构和叙事，从现象学的角度引导人们参与政治，并认为这不仅影响了在线行为，还影响了人们对政治更普遍的理解。

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International Political Sociology Multiple-

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4.80

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： International Political Sociology (IPS), responds to the need for more productive collaboration among political sociologists, international relations specialists and sociopolitical theorists. It is especially concerned with challenges arising from contemporary transformations of social, political, and global orders given the statist forms of traditional sociologies and the marginalization of social processes in many approaches to international relations. IPS is committed to theoretical innovation, new modes of empirical research and the geographical and cultural diversification of research beyond the usual circuits of European and North-American scholarship.