“We Dissect Stupidity and Respond to It”: Response Videos and Networked Harassment on YouTube

Moral Values ◽

The Social ◽

Social Affordances ◽

Audience Behavior ◽

Over the last decade YouTube “response videos” in which a user offers counterarguments to a video uploaded by another user have become popular among political creators. While creators often frame response videos as debates, those targeted assert that they function as vehicles for harassment from the creator and their networked audience. Platform policies, which base moderation decisions on individual pieces of content rather than the relationship between videos and audience behavior, may therefore fail to address networked harassment. We analyze the relationship between amplification and harassment through qualitative content analysis of 15 response videos. We argue that response videos often provide a blueprint for harassment that shows both why the target is wrong and why harassment would be justified. Creators use argumentative tactics to portray themselves as defenders of enlightened public discourse and their targets as irrational and immoral. This positioning is misleading, given that creators interpellate the viewer as part of a networked audience with shared moral values that the target violates. Our analysis also finds that networked audiences act on that blueprint through the social affordances of YouTube, which we frame as harassment affordances. We argue that YouTube’s current policies are insufficient for addressing harassment that relies on amplification and networked audiences.

“We Dissect Stupidity and Respond to It”: Response Videos and Networked Harassment on YouTube

American Behavioral Scientist ◽

10.1177/0002764221989781 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 65 (5) ◽

pp. 735-756

Author(s):

Rebecca Lewis ◽

Alice E. Marwick ◽

William Clyde Partin

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Moral Values ◽

The Past ◽

The Social ◽

Social Affordances ◽

Audience Behavior ◽

Over the past decade YouTube “response videos” in which a user offers counterarguments to a video uploaded by another user have become popular among political creators. While creators often frame response videos as debates, those targeted assert that they function as vehicles for harassment from the creator and their networked audience. Platform policies, which base moderation decisions on individual pieces of content rather than the relationship between videos and audience behavior, may therefore fail to address networked harassment. We analyze the relationship between amplification and harassment through qualitative content analysis of 15 response videos. We argue that response videos often provide a blueprint for harassment that shows both why the target is wrong and why harassment would be justified. Creators use argumentative tactics to portray themselves as defenders of enlightened public discourse and their targets as irrational and immoral. This positioning is misleading, given that creators interpellate the viewer as part of a networked audience with shared moral values that the target violates. Our analysis also finds that networked audiences act on that blueprint through the social affordances of YouTube, which we frame as harassment affordances. We argue that YouTube’s current policies are insufficient for addressing harassment that relies on amplification and networked audiences.

Upsettling Canada in 140 Characters: race relations in the Twittersphere

10.32920/ryerson.14645526 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Caroline Carter

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Social Networking ◽

Race Relations ◽

Online Discussion ◽

Vital Role ◽

The Social ◽

Colonial Theory ◽

Networking Tool ◽

A Site

This paper is a qualitative content analysis of public tweets made during the Indigenous social movement, Idle No More, containing the #upsettler and #upsettlers hashtags. Using settler colonial theory coupled with previous literature on Twitter during social movements as a guiding framework, this study identifies how settler colonial relations were being constructed on Twitter and how functions of the social networking tool such as the hashtag impacted this process. By examining and analyzing the content of 278 tweets, this study illustrates that Twitter is a site where conversations about race relations in Canada are taking place and that the use of the hashtag function plays a vital role in expanding the reach of this online discussion and creating a sense of solidarity or community among users.

Constructing the emotions of childhood: an analysis of Margaret Mahy’s use of emotion in her literary contribution to the School Journal

10.26686/wgtn.17004967.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

Gemma Amy Helleur Hiscock

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Social Construction ◽

Research Study ◽

School Librarians ◽

Reader Responses ◽

Analysis Methodology ◽

The Social ◽

School Journal ◽

Margaret Mahy

<p>This qualitative content analysis research study examines how Margaret Mahy used emotion in the School Journal to form insights into reader appeal, reader response and the social construction of childhood. This research study examines Mahy’s contribution to the School Journal. The study explores this body of work in terms of how its author uses emotion to captivate readers by evoking the feelings associated with childhood. The underlying objective of the study was to provide insights into why Mahy’s work is so treasured and memorable; to explain how she uses emotion to captivate readers, and how this contributes to the social construction of childhood. The prose and poetry Mahy contributed to the School Journal prove to be a significant, rich and uncharted resource for the purposes of this research investigation. Analysis of this body of work has allowed for greater insights and understanding into Mahy’s contribution to children’s literature. It has also allowed for a greater appreciation of how Mahy’s use of emotion contributes to the social construction of childhood. This type of content analysis research study proves to be invaluable in the development of reader’s advisory services to young people. The employment of a content analysis methodology, underpinned by a discourse analysis approach, enabled the emotional narratives of Mahy’s text to be explained and understood. The study’s findings, that lightness and aliveness are the most prevalent and persuasive emotions operating within Mahy’s text, was substantiated through analysis of actual reader responses. This investigation is most applicable to school librarians, children’s librarians and educators. The study has broader implications for the improvement of client interaction and collection development in youth library services</p>

Navigating identity within the context of culture & community: an examination of creative engagement among black 2SLGBTQ Caribbean-Canadian artists

10.32920/ryerson.14668113.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Shaniqua (Nika) Smith

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Community Building ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Creative Expression ◽

Data Sources ◽

The Social ◽

Secondary Data Sources ◽

And Gender ◽

Equity And Inclusion

This research examines some of the ways Black 2SLGBTQ Caribbean-Canadian artists engage with creative expression to navigate their sexual and gender identities. This study also highlighted the intersection of race, gender, sexual identity, and immigration. The secondary data sources collected were a photography series produced by Jamaican-Canadian photographer Brianna Roye; and a 2015 interview featuring Michèle Pearson Clarke, a Trinidadian-Canadian artist. These secondary data sources were analyzed using multi-textual analysis and qualitative content analysis tools. The findings highlight the potential for art and creative expression to address issues of anti-Black racism and heterosexism, in addition to fostering healing and community building. This study aims to present insight that will contribute to ongoing efforts within the social work profession to promote Black 2SLGBTQ equity and inclusion.

Licence to operate

Social Enterprise Journal ◽

10.1108/sej-02-2015-0004 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 387-408 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Juha Klemelä

Keyword(s):

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Social Impact ◽

Full Spectrum ◽

Content Type ◽

The Social ◽

The Status ◽

Licence To Operate ◽

The Relationship ◽

Benefits And Costs

Purpose The Social Return on Investment (SROI) framework has been developed for mapping and measuring social impact. It may be used for legitimating organisations and projects. The framework is often criticised for its overemphasis of the SROI ratio, i.e. the relationship between monetised benefits and costs. This study aims to demonstrate how the SROI method legitimates organisations or projects with multiple other discursive ways besides the SROI ratio. It also discusses the status of these other ways of legitimation in relation to the quantifying and monetising core tendency of SROI. Design/methodology/approach The empirical data consist of an SROI guidebook and 12 SROI reports. Their study applies Theo van Leeuwen’s ideas for analysing the discursive legitimation of social practices. The study takes place broadly in the framework of Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis, aided by qualitative content analysis. Findings In the analysis, the full spectrum of the van Leeuwenian legitimation means used by SROI – authorisation, rationalisation, moral evaluation and mythopoetical narration – is brought out in the data and the status and social context of the legitimation means are assessed and discussed. It is shown that there is existing potential for broader and more visible use of different legitimation means. Practical implications Based on the findings of the study, suggestions for the improvement of SROI reporting by a more balanced explicit use of the multitude of legitimation means are presented. Originality/value The study is original both in its subject (the spectrum of legitimation in SROI) and its method (qualitative discursive and contentual analysis of SROI as a legitimating discourse).

Handbook of Research on Children's Consumption of Digital Media - Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology ◽

The Role of Locally Produced and Digitally Animated Cartoons in the Process of Acquisition of Social Values

10.4018/978-1-5225-5733-3.ch014 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 195-208

Author(s):

Pınar Özgökbel Bilis ◽

Ali Emre Bilis

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Social Values ◽

Moral Values ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Television Channel ◽

The Social ◽

The Media ◽

Television channels for children contain many cartoons and programs. These productions reach the viewers via both the television and the channel's official website. TRT Çocuk, broadcasting for children as a government television channel, presents many locally produced animated cartoons to the viewers. A product of the modern and digital technology, these locally produced cartoons carry importance in terms of transfer of social values. This study focuses on locally produced animation cartoons that have an important potential especially in the transfer of national and moral values. Determination of values conveyed via cartoons that bear importance in the transformation of television into an educational tool allows the media and child relationships to become visible. This work aims to examine the relationship between media and values by defining the concept of “value.” After creating a corporate frame, the study brings to light the social values conveyed in locally produced cartoons aired on TRT Çocuk television channel via qualitative analysis method.

Thematic Analysis

Research Methods in the Social Sciences: An A-Z of key concepts ◽

10.1093/hepl/9780198850298.003.0066 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 283-288

Author(s):

Jean-Frédéric Morin ◽

Christian Olsson ◽

Ece Özlem Atikcan

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Thematic Analysis ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

Analytic Method ◽

The Social ◽

Distinct Method

This chapter evaluates thematic analysis (TA), which is one of the oldest and most widely used qualitative analytic method across the social sciences. TA is a flexible method for identifying and analysing patterns of meaning — ‘themes’ — in qualitative data, with wide-ranging applications. The method has a long, if indeterminate, history in the social sciences, but seems likely to have evolved from early forms of (qualitative) content analysis. TA is now more likely to be demarcated and acknowledged as a distinct method; however, confusion remains about what TA is. The popularity of TA as a distinct method received a considerable boost from the publication of Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology by social psychologists Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke in 2006, which has become one of the most cited academic papers of recent decades.

Degrees of Freedom: Exploring Agency, Narratives, and Technological Affordances in the #TakeAKnee Controversy

Social Media + Society ◽

10.1177/2056305119826125 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 205630511982612 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Judith E. Rosenbaum

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Degrees Of Freedom ◽

Structuration Theory ◽

The Social ◽

American National Identity ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Media Narratives ◽

Technological Affordances

This study extends current research into social media platforms as counterpublic spaces by examining how the social media narratives produced by the #TakeAKnee controversy negotiate technological affordances and existing discourses surrounding American national identity. Giddens’ Structuration Theory is used to explore the nature of user agency on social media platforms and the extent to which this agency is constrained or enabled by the interplay between the systems and structures that guide social media use. Exploratory qualitative content analysis was used to analyze and compare tweets and Instagram posts using the #TakeAKnee hashtag shared in September 2017. Results showed that narratives are dominated by four themes, freedom, unity, equality and justice, and respect and honor. Users actively employ technological affordances to create highly personalized meanings, affirming that agency operates at the intersection of reflexivity and self-efficacy.

The Populist Discourse on Representation in Lithuania

European Review ◽

10.1017/s1062798720000216 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 28 (5) ◽

pp. 744-760

Author(s):

Jogilė Ulinskaitė

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Political Parties ◽

Empirical Study ◽

Political Identity ◽

Political Representation ◽

Moral Values ◽

Election Manifestos ◽

2016 Election

Populist parties participate in the process of political representation through elections. Little is known about how they conceptualize this process since their statements refer to a direct involvement of citizens in decision-making and disapprove of representatives. This article addresses this issue and presents an empirical study about how Lithuanian populist political parties define political representation. The data come from the 2016 election manifestos and from party websites between April 2016 and September 2017. The qualitative content analysis reveals that populists define representation by referencing common moral values and constant communication with citizens. This helps them create a political identity common to themselves as representatives and the represented.

Natur als Widerspruch

10.5771/9783845298504 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Christian Dürnberger

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Genetic Engineering ◽

Recent History ◽

Modern Age ◽

Nature Play ◽

Controversial Technologies ◽

Green Genetic Engineering ◽

Green genetic engineering is one of the most controversial technologies in recent history. On the basis of a qualitative content analysis of German position papers criticising this technology, this book clarifies three questions: Why is the controversy so vehement and emotional? Why is there no prospect of a compromise on this matter? And what ideas of the relationship between humans and nature play a role in the dispute? ‘Nature’ is omnipresent and dazzling, but how is this term used in current social debates? What concrete interpretations is ‘nature’ associated with? This study understands the controversy over green genetic engineering as an exemplary controversy that exposes fundamental aspects of the modern age and its relationship to nature.