Performing Identity: Repetition, Emoji, and Candidate Indicators of Amplified Visibility in Jordanian–Palestinian Facebook Discourse

IF 5.8 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2026-06-15 DOI:10.1177/20563051261454774

Alaeddin A. Banikalef, Mohammad Issa Mehawesh

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Abstract

This study examines how Arabic Facebook comments shape political tensions between Jordanians and Palestinians. The corpus contains 800 public comments collected from public Facebook pages focused on Jordanian–Palestinian affairs between January and July 2025. Methods combine immersive digital ethnography with systematic netnographic coding and a reproducible coordination–detection protocol applied at three scales: micro (linguistic strategies), meso (semiotic affordances), and macro (temporal and network patterns). The results show that dialectal markers, religious formulae, emojis, short slogans, and threaded replies interact to produce strong identity signaling and affective circulation. A subset of items displays heuristic markers associated with amplified visibility, such as exact-text repetition, clustered timestamps, repeated links, and low-engagement account profiles. These markers are presented as candidate indicators of amplification, not as proof of centralized orchestration. This study provides open detection scripts and appendix materials for human adjudication and follow-up network analyses. Findings point to low-cost interventions, such as prompts before verbatim reposting and triage workflows for flagged clusters, and to the need for cross-platform tracing and bot analyses to confirm provenance.

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表演身份：重复、表情符号和约旦-巴勒斯坦Facebook话语中放大可见性的候选指标

这项研究考察了阿拉伯语Facebook评论如何影响约旦人和巴勒斯坦人之间的政治紧张关系。该语料库包含了从Facebook公开页面收集的800条公众评论，这些评论集中在2025年1月至7月期间的约旦-巴勒斯坦事务上。方法将沉浸式数字人种学与系统的网络编码和可重复的协调检测协议结合起来，应用于三个尺度：微观（语言策略）、中观（符号可视性）和宏观（时间和网络模式）。结果表明，方言标记、宗教公式、表情符号、短口号和线程回复相互作用，产生强烈的身份信号和情感循环。项目的子集显示与放大可见性相关的启发式标记，例如精确文本重复、集群时间戳、重复链接和低参与度帐户配置文件。这些标记是作为候选的放大指示，而不是作为集中式编排的证明。本研究提供开放的检测脚本及附录资料，供人审及后续网络分析之用。研究结果指出了低成本的干预措施，例如在逐字转发和标记集群的分类工作流程之前进行提示，以及需要跨平台跟踪和机器人分析来确认来源。

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Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.