Comparing user-content interactivity and audience diversity across news and satire: differences in online engagement between satire, regular news and partisan news
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چکیده
Normative theory on the functioning of public sphere requires citizens to actively engage with information that is provided them. For a long time, however, possibilities user-content interactivity have been limited due one-directionality traditional mass media. Moreover, re-occurring question what extent less-versus-more entertaining forms news evoke audience engagement. This study analyzes engagement online platforms in response journalistic content and infotainment; more concretely, we compare whether satire genre likely than regular partisan shows. To test our hypotheses, large-scale data analysis social media posts by wide variety American TV shows Facebook, YouTube, Twitter has conducted. Results demonstrate satire’s potential encourage interactivity: Satire videos generated (a) likes (b) comments clips news. However, also find (c) are related less controversy, which arguably indicates hampers exchange diverse ideas. Compared – shares many features satire, but often lacks humor component elicits commentary controversy.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Information Technology & Politics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1933-1681', '1933-169X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2021.1927928