Session 6

📚 Politische TV-Debatten & Social Media

Literature

The following sections list the mandatory articles for the each presenting group. Additional optional articles are provided under Further reading.

📚 Thema 5: Wechselwirkung zwischen TV-Debatten und Twitter

  • Trilling, D. (2015). Two Different Debates? Investigating the Relationship Between a Political Debate on TV and Simultaneous Comments on Twitter. Social Science Computer Review, 33(3), 259–276. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439314537886
  • Robertson, C. T., Dutton, W. H., Ackland, R., & Peng, T.-Q. (2019). The democratic role of social media in political debates: The use of Twitter in the first televised US presidential debate of 2016. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 16(2), 105–118. https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2019.1590283
  • Jennings, F. J., Warner, B. R., McKinney, M. S., Kearney, C. C., Funk, M. E., & Bramlett, J. C. (2020). Learning from Presidential Debates: Who Learns the Most and Why? Communication Studies, 71(5), 896–910. https://doi.org/10.1080/10510974.2020.1807377
Further Readings
  • Coddington, M., Molyneux, L., & Lawrence, R. G. (2014). Fact Checking the Campaign: How Political Reporters Use Twitter to Set the Record Straight (or Not). The International Journal of Press/Politics, 19(4), 391–409. https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161214540942
  • Goovaerts, I., & Turkenburg, E. (2023). How Contextual Features Shape Incivility Over Time: An Analysis of the Evolution and Determinants of Political Incivility in Televised Election Debates (19852019). Communication Research, 50(4), 480–507. https://doi.org/10.1177/00936502221135694

📚 Thema 6: Live-Chat(-Kommentare) in politischen Debatten

  • Asbury-Kimmel, V., Chang, K.-C., McCabe, K. T., Munger, K., & Ventura, T. (2021). The effect of streaming chat on perceptions of political debates. Journal of Communication, 71(6), 947–974. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqab041
  • Ruiz-Bravo, N., Selander, L., & Roshan, M. (2022). The Political Turn of Twitch Understanding Live Chat as an Emergent Political Space. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/79723
  • Riddick, S., & Shivener, R. (2022). Affective spamming on twitch: Rhetorics of an emote-only audience in a presidential inauguration livestream. Computers and Composition, 64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2022.102711
  • Eaton, J. (2024). From the comments section: Analyzing online public discourse on the first 2020 presidential debate. Research & Politics, 11(3), 20531680241271758. https://doi.org/10.1177/20531680241271758
Further reading
  • Powell, A., & Williams-Johnson, D. (2023). “You dumb cracker b*tch”: The legitimizing of White supremacy during a Twitch ban of HasanAbi. New Media & Society, 14614448231191776. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231191776


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