When rites go wrong: the impact of failed rituals of news sharing

IF 0.9 Q3 COMMUNICATION
A. Duffy, Kym Campbell
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ABSTRACT When people share news stories on social media, they appeal to transcendent values: showing care, creating a community, seeking certainty, or demonstrating competence. This places news sharing in the realm of ritual actions. This is not always successful, however. This paper argues that failure of these rituals indicates their importance and shows how news-sharing rituals adapt to maintain their relevance in an environment dominated by the smartphone and influenced the fear of misinformation. Twelve focus groups discussed news sharing and the discussions suggested first what kind of transcendent ritual values are important when sharing news; second, what happens when the ritual fails; and third how the ritual adapts in the face of failure to maintain appeals to transcendent values. It offers evidence to challenge the myth of the media centre, and to question the role of the individual taking personal responsibility for the adaptation of ritual behaviour that contributes to the cohesion and survival of communities.
当仪式出错:失败的新闻分享仪式的影响
当人们在社交媒体上分享新闻故事时,他们呼吁超越的价值观:表示关心,创建社区,寻求确定性或展示能力。这将新闻分享置于仪式行为的领域。然而,这并不总是成功的。本文认为,这些仪式的失败表明了它们的重要性,并显示了新闻分享仪式如何适应在智能手机主导的环境中保持其相关性,并影响了对错误信息的恐惧。12个焦点小组对新闻分享进行了讨论,首先提出了新闻分享时,什么样的超越性仪式价值是重要的;第二,当仪式失败时会发生什么;第三,面对无法维持对超越价值的诉求,仪式是如何适应的。它提供了挑战媒体中心神话的证据,并质疑个人在适应有助于社区凝聚力和生存的仪式行为方面承担个人责任的角色。
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