ORCID Profile
0000-0001-7287-168X
Current Organisation
The University of Canberra
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 16-05-2018
DOI: 10.1017/S0143814X18000132
Abstract: Why do issues “fade” from the problem stream? This is an important but underresearched question, which this article examines by looking at the dynamic interaction between frames and frame sponsors. We develop a novel methodological approach that combines algorithmic coding (topic modelling) with hand-coding to track changes in the presence of frames and frame sponsors during periods of intense problematisation (“problem windows”) both within continuous contexts and diachronically across different contexts. We apply this approach empirically in a corpus of newspaper articles that pertain to the coal seam gas controversy in Australia – a isive policy issue where frame conflicts are common. We find that elite actors have a particularly decisive impact on the problem stream in terms of both the evolution and duration of debate. Further, problem windows close in response to three different mechanisms: elite frame convergence public statements (by government and industry) and elections.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 29-06-2012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 29-06-2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 29-06-2012
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-10-2017
Abstract: This paper develops a way for analyzing the structure of c aign communications within Twitter. The structure of communication affordances creates opportunities for a horizontal organization power within Twitter interactions. However, one cannot infer the structure of interactions as they materialize from the formal properties of the technical environment in which the communications occur. Consequently, the paper identifies three categories of empowering communication operations that can occur on Twitter: C aigns can respond to others, c aigns can retweet others, and c aigns can call for others to become involved in the c aign on their own terms. The paper operationalizes these categories in the context of the 2015 U.K. general election. To determine whether Twitter is used to empower laypersons, the profiles of each account retweeted and replied to were retrieved and analyzed using natural language processing to identify whether an account is from a political figure, member of the media, or some other public figure. In addition, tweets and retweets are compared with respect to the manner key election issues are discussed. The findings indicate that empowering uses of Twitter are fairly marginal, and retweets use almost identical policy language as the original c aign tweets.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 29-06-2012
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Date: 2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-11-2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-06-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-02-2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 29-06-2012
Abstract: This book focuses on the impact of digital media use for political engagement across varied geographic and political contexts, using a ersity of methodological approaches and datasets. The book addresses an important gap in the contemporary literature on digital politics, identifying context dependent and transcendent political consequences of digital media use. While the majority of the empirical work in this field has been based on studies from the United States and United Kingdom, this volume seeks to place those results into comparative relief with other regions of the world. It moves debates in this field of study forward by identifying system-level attributes that shape digital political engagement across a wide variety of contexts. The evidence analyzed across the fifteen cases considered in the book suggests that engagement with digital environments influences users' political orientations and that contextual features play a significant role in shaping digital politics.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2013
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-931-6.CH006
Abstract: Local government websites are the primary place citizens interact with their local governments online. This research presents qualitative and quantitative content analyses of local government websites in the United States. It investigates these websites with respect to the participatory and consumer citizenship roles reflected and structured through their design. The websites are evaluated regarding their usability with respect to consumer and participatory interactions as well as the symbolic content framing users’ interactions. While both participatory and consumer interactions were equally accessible in 2003, longitudinal analysis shows that governments are facilitating consumer interactions without a corresponding increase in participatory usability. Additionally, an evaluation of the symbolic content of the websites reveals that almost universally, they emphasize a consumer mode of interactions over a participatory mode of interactions. A detailed qualitative analysis shows that participatory aspects are subordinate to consumer dimensions and that political content is cast to discourage dissenting political interactions.
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2023
Location: Spain
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