Contrasting News Values in Newspaper Articles and Social Media: A Discursive Approach to the US Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage

2019 ◽  
pp. 147-161
Author(s):  
Marco Venuti ◽  
Antonio Fruttaldo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
News Values ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Us ◽  
Discursive Approach ◽  
Newspaper Articles

scholarly journals Negativity Spreads More than Positivity on Twitter After Both Positive and Negative Political Situations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Paul Schöne ◽  
Brian Parkinson ◽  
Amit Goldenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Negative Finding ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Content Sharing ◽  
Emotional Language ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Supreme Court ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractWhat type of emotional language spreads further in political discourses on social media? Previous research has focused on situations that primarily elicited negative emotions, showing that negative language tended to spread further. The current project extends existing knowledge by examining the spread of emotional language in response to both predominantly positive and negative political situations. In Study 1, we examined the spread of emotional language in tweets related to the winning and losing parties in the 2016 US elections, finding that increased negativity (but not positivity) predicted content sharing in both situations. In Study 2, we compared the spread of emotional language in two separate situations: the celebration of the US Supreme Court approval of same-sex marriage (positive) and the Ferguson unrest (negative), finding again that negativity spread further. These results shed light on the nature of political discourse and engagement.

scholarly journals Negativity Spreads More than Positivity on Twitter after both Positive and Negative Political Situations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Schöne ◽  
Brian Parkinson ◽  
Amit Goldenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Negative Finding ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Content Sharing ◽  
Emotional Language ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Supreme Court ◽  
Shed Light

What type of emotional language spreads further in political discourses on social media? Previous research has focused on situations that primarily elicited negative emotions, showing that negative language tended to spread further. The current project addressed the gap introduced when looking only at negative situations by comparing the spread of emotional language in response to both predominantly positive and negative political situations. In Study 1, we examined the spread of emotional language among tweets related to the winning and losing parties in the 2016 US elections, finding that increased negativity (but not positivity) predicted content sharing in both situations. In Study 2, we compared the spread of emotional language in two separate situations: the celebration of the US Supreme Court approval of same-sex marriage (positive), and the Ferguson Unrest (negative), finding again that negativity spread further. These results shed light on the nature of political discourse and engagement.

Social Media and Marriage Equality in Australia: The Media Roles in the Public Sphere and the Agenda-Setting

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Yuhanyin Ma
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Marriage Equality ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Public Sphere

<p align="justify">Marriage equality or the equal status of same-sex marriage has undergone a rather tough road in Australia, involving diverging opinions in parties at the state and federal levels and constitutional amendments. It appears that people in power set the agenda on the legalization of same-sex marriage. However, it cannot be denied that social media played an almost decisive role in this process because it enabled the gathering of massive public opinion to pressure the government to make changes. To be specific, social media or social networking sites offered platforms for people concerned to share reports about the progress of foreign countries in legalizing same-sex marriage, to express their opinions and to launch campaigns in support of their beliefs. This essay explores the role that social media played in the legalization of marriage equality movement in Australia from the perspectives of the public sphere theory and the agenda-setting theory.</p>

The Diffusion of Support for Same-Sex Marriage in the US Senate

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (04) ◽  
pp. 824-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean M. Theriault ◽  
Herschel F. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Equality ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Senate

ABSTRACTAdvocates for same-sex marriage have had much to celebrate. The last few years have shown that state after state and senator after senator have declared their support for full marriage equality. Such momentum suggests that their goals will be realized sooner rather than later. In this article, we analyze when senators announce their support for same-sex marriage. Contrary to the popularly held belief that their decisions will quickly snowball into filibuster-proof numbers, we find that most of the easy successes have already been achieved. The difficulty of securing the last few votes may take much longer.

Managing Public Dismay and Saving the Image of the Four Seasons Bali

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 323-326
Author(s):  
Jasper Bosma ◽  
Johan Bouwer ◽  
Rob van Ginneken ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Ethical Dilemma ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Four Seasons ◽  
Criminal Charges ◽  
International Companies

This case describes an ethical dilemma faced by the Four Seasons Resort Bali at Sayan in September 2015. The resort had hosted a ceremony which appeared to be, on pictures posted on social media, the wedding of a homosexual couple. A local uproar ensued, and several stakeholders, including the local government, considered the event an outrage – same-sex marriage being illegal in the country – and the sales executive faced criminal charges of blasphemy, as the use of Hindu symbols was considered offensive. The case should make students reflect on the nature of several moral dilemmas that emerged in this specific hospitality context, and ask themselves questions like “who is responsible for the dismay?, has the dilemma been solved adequately? and, more generally, how should international companies deal with such matters?”

Policy Change and Public Opinion: Measuring Shifting Political Sentiment With Social Media Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 612-621
Author(s):  
Nicholas Joseph Adams-Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Media Data

This article uses Twitter data and machine-learning methods to analyze the causal impact of the Supreme Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage at the federal level in the United States on political sentiment and discourse toward gay rights. In relying on social media text data, this project constructs a large data set of expressed political opinions in the short time frame before and after the Obergefell v. Hodges decision. Due to the variation in state laws regarding the legality of same-sex marriage prior to the Supreme Court’s decision, I use a difference-in-difference estimator to show that, in those states where the Court’s ruling produced a policy change, there was relatively more negative movement in public opinion toward same-sex marriage and gay rights issues as compared with other states. This confirms previous studies that show Supreme Court decisions polarize public opinion in the short term, extends previous results by demonstrating opinion becomes relatively more negative in states where policy is overturned, and demonstrates how to use social media data to engage in causal analyses.

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