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Disintermediation in social networks: conceptualizing political actors’ construction of publics on Twitter

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dc.contributor.author Eldridge, Scott A.
dc.contributor.author García-Carretero, Lucía
dc.contributor.author Broersma, Marcel
dc.date.accessioned 2023-01-17T06:54:27Z
dc.date.available 2023-01-17T06:54:27Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Eldridge SA, García-Carretero L, Broersma M. Disintermediation in social networks: conceptualizing political actors’ construction of publics on Twitter. Media and Communication. 2019;7(1):271-85. DOI: 10.17645/mac.v7i1.1825
dc.identifier.issn 2183-2439
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/55289
dc.description.abstract While often treated as distinct, both politics and journalism share in their histories a need for a public that is not naturally assembled and needs instead to be ‘constructed’. In earlier times the role of mediating politics to publics often fell to news media, which were also dependent on constructing a ‘public’ for their own viability. It is hardly notable to say this has changed in a digital age, and in the way social media have allowed politicians and political movements to speak to their own publics bypassing news voices is a clear example of this. We show how both established politics and emerging political movements now activate and intensify certain publics through their media messages, and how this differs in the UK, Spain and the Netherlands. When considering journalism and social media, emphasis on their prominence can mask more complex shifts they ushered in, including cross-national differences, where they have pushed journalism towards social media to communicate news, and where political actors now use these spaces for their own communicative ends. Building upon this research, this article revisits conceptualizations of the ways political actors construct publics and argues that we see processes of disintermediation taking place in political actors’ social networks on Twitter.
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dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Cogitatio Press
dc.relation.ispartof Media and Communication. 2019;7(1):271-85
dc.rights © 2019 by the authors; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.title Disintermediation in social networks: conceptualizing political actors’ construction of publics on Twitter
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v7i1.1825
dc.subject.keyword Journalism
dc.subject.keyword Networks
dc.subject.keyword Politics
dc.subject.keyword Public sphere
dc.subject.keyword Publics
dc.subject.keyword Social media
dc.subject.keyword Twitter
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