Online Video "Friends" Social Networking: Overlapping Online Public Spheres in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

被引:39
作者
Robertson, Scott P. [1 ]
Vatrapu, Ravi K. [2 ]
Medina, Richard [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Hawaii, Dept Informat & Comp Sci, 1680 East West Rd,POST Bldg, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[2] Copenhagen Business Sch, Ctr Appl Informat & Commun Technol, Frederiksberg, Denmark
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
E-participation; Internet and politics; online video; social networking;
D O I
10.1080/19331681003753420
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
This article examines the links to YouTube from the Facebook "walls" of the three major candidates in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. User-generated linkage patterns show how participants in these politically related social networking dialogs used online video to make their points. We show how different types of individuals inhabit these overlapping public spheres and how they provide structure and interpretive information for others. Civic life is becoming more sociotechnical, and will therefore involve engagements with ideas as they are constructed by others out of disparate information sources and their interlinkages.
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页码:182 / 201
页数:20
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