The impact of ‘super-participants’ on everyday political talk
This article analyses the impact of “super-participants” – people who create lots of content, set the agenda, or moderate debates – on everyday online political talk in a non-political online discussion forum – or “third space”. The article finds that there was extensive evidence of super-participation in the forum, and that they did impact the nature of political talk.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Third space and political talk
- 3.Super-participation
- 3.1Super-posters (SP1s)
- 3.2Agenda-setters (SP2s)
- 3.3Moderators and facilitators (SP3s)
- 3.4Strategic manipulators (SP4s)
- 4.Methodology
- 5.The extent and impact of super-posters (SP1s)
- 6.Agenda-setting (SP2s)
- 7.Moderators and facilitators (SP3s)
- 8.Conclusion
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