Twitter Time : A Temporal Analysis of Tweet Streams During Televised Political Debate
A Temporal Analysis of Tweet Streams During Televised Political Debate

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Authors and Corporations: Pond, Philip
In: Television & New Media, 17, 2016, 2, p. 142-158
published:
SAGE Publications
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 142-158
ISSN: 1527-4764
1552-8316
DOI: 10.1177/1527476415616190
published in: Television & New Media
Language: English
Subjects:
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Cultural Studies
Collection: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> This article examines the role that the microblogging service Twitter plays in engaging audiences with televised political debate. Analysis focuses on Q&amp;A, a political discussion show hosted by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and the #QandA hashtag used to discuss the broadcast. Analysis suggests that rather than enabling user-to-user communication, the #QandA stream is characterized by the struggle to signify and complex nonlinear temporalities. These contributions to ongoing language wars imply an emergent type of audience engagement, which may not be compatible with a normative framing of deliberative discourse. </jats:p>