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O'Leary, MJ (2024) Interstitial Dialogues: A Phenomenology of News-Comments. In: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Social Media , 11 (1). pp. 373-377. (11th European Conference on Social Media - ECSM 2024, 30-31 May 2024, University of Brighton, United Kingdom).
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Abstract
This paper presents findings from a study that examined the phenomenological detail of the reading process involved in everyday encounters with news microposts. In recent decades, reading the news has become characterised by the micro-texts of social media, but the fine-grained detail of this encounter as a reading experience is often overlooked. In a series of reading exercises, long-form news articles and short-form news comments were shown to structure different reading experiences in terms of meaning and dialogue. These differences were linked to the specific layout of the texts within the website interface. The high volume of negative space surrounding the comments explained the dialogical mode by which the participant-readers made sense of these texts. The findings contribute to understandings of social media as phatic communication and challenge pessimistic accounts that link micro-texts to a decline in critical engagements with the news.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Humanities & Social Science |
| Publisher: | Academic Conferences International Ltd |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jun 2024 09:54 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jun 2024 10:00 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.34190/ecsm.11.1.2329 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/23433 |
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