Social media users in search of ‘facts’
The Trade Union House fire case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12977914 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vera Zvereva (0000-0001-8071-6380, University of Jyväskylä, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-28 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Russian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-9427 • E-ISSN: 1940-9419 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19409419.2021.1893212 |
| OpenAlex | W3135749204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
What factors influence users to believe the stories they find in social media, and what role do emotions play for users in concluding that a particular fact is ‘true’? This article examines one aspect of emotionalized communication in social networks in an information war context, namely, how social network users make decisions about the reliability of the information they receive. We employ a qualitative study of a single case – a discussion among Russian-speaking Livejournal.com and Facebook.com users of a tragic incident in Ukraine – the deadly fire that took place in the Odessa Trade Union House on 2 May, 2014. The relevancy of this case consists in how, for all its uniqueness as a tragic event, the communications by users in its immediate aftermath typify important features of social media discussions of ‘shocking events’. This article considers a general model of behavior of users who must try to comprehend the tragic news and are caught in a state of uncertainty amid acute confrontation between actors in an information conflict
Context (archaeology · Event (particle physics · Internet privacy · Political science · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Social Media and Politics
Doing News Framing Analysis
Affective Publics
Discourse and Frame Analysis
Confirmation Bias, Ingroup Bias, and Negativity Bias in Selective Exposure to Political Information
Echo Chambers on Facebook
Title unavailable
From commodification to weaponization
Affective witnessing
Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion
Fake News and The Economy of Emotions
The Crisis in Ukraine and the Split of Identity in the Russian-speaking World
The Red Web
Social media and visual framing of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine
A Social Stage Model of Collective Coping
Framing
Populism and social media
On the Role of Emotion in the Future of Journalism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |