Affective News and Networked Publics: The Rhythms of News Storytelling on #Egypt
2012/02/23 by Zizi Papacharissi, Maria de Fatima Oliveira, Maria de Fátima Paim de Oliveira · 784 citations
Social Sciences · #Art #Crowdsourcing #Hybridity #Law #Literature #Media Studies and Communication #Media studies #Narrative #News media #News values #Point (geometry) #Political science #Politics #Public Relations and Crisis Communication #Publics #Social Media and Politics #Sociology #Solidarity #Storytelling
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01630.x
published in Journal of Communication 62(2), 266-282 (Oxford University Press)
openalex publication_date 2012/02/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/27
Abstract
This study traces the rhythms of news storytelling on Twitter via the #egypt hashtag. Using computational discourse analysis, we examine news values and the form of news exhibited in #egypt from January 25 to February 25, 2011, pre- and post-resignation of Hosni Mubarak. Results point to a hybridity of old and newer news values, with emphasis on the drama of instantaneity, the crowdsourcing of elites, solidarity, and ambience. The resulting stream of news combines news, opinion, and emotion to the point where discerning one from the other is difficult and doing so misses the point. We offer a theory of affective news to explain the distinctive character of content produced by networked publics in times of political crisis.
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