#JeSuisCharlie: Towards a Multi-Method Study of Hybrid Media Events
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Release | : 2016 |
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Download or read book #JeSuisCharlie: Towards a Multi-Method Study of Hybrid Media Events written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This article suggests a new methodological model for the study of hybrid media events with global appeal. This model, developed in the project on the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, was created specifically for researching digital media - and in particular, Twitter. The article is structured as follows. Firstly, the methodological scope is discussed against the theoretical context, e.g. the theory of media events. In the theoretical discussion, special emphasis is given to i) disruptive, upsetting, or disintegrative media events and hybrid media events and ii) the conditions of today's heterogeneous and globalised media communication landscape. Secondly, the article introduces a multi-method approach developed for the analysis of hybrid media events. In this model, computational social science - namely, automated content analysis (ACA) and social network analytics (SNA) - are combined with a qualitative approach - specifically, digital ethnography. The article outlines three k