Twitter feeders: an analysis of dominant 'voices' and patterns in a local government mosque controversy
Waller, Lisa, Hess, Kristy and Demetrious, Kristin 2016, Twitter feeders: an analysis of dominant 'voices' and patterns in a local government mosque controversy, Australian journalism review, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 47-60.
Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia
Place of publication
Adelaide, Sth. Aust.
Publication date
2016-12
ISSN
0810-2686
Summary
Intense mainstream news coverage, graphic media spectacle and national political attention dominated public discussion about a local planning proposal to build a $3 million mosque complex in the regional Victorian city of Bendigo in 2014-2016. This article focuses on a study of Twitter and its relationship to the public issue. It employs a ‘geo-social’ framework to examine how the mosque controversy entered wider information flows and engaged political power beyond the local. It provides contextually specific evidence of mainstream media and elite level actors dominating Twitter during deliberations over a local government planning issue. The analysis reveals how Twitter use in this case was shaped around legacy media logics, such as ‘old’ news values and traditional power structures, rather than generating wide participatory public discussion and engagement on the issue.
Language
eng
Field of Research
190301 Journalism Studies 1903 Journalism And Professional Writing 2001 Communication And Media Studies
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