Media

The British media’s progressives are coming round to Scottish independence

Stephen Richard — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:44:36 +0000

The British media’s progressives are coming round to Scottish independence

Primary Author or Creator

Simon Pia

Stephen Richard Tue, 10/12/2021 - 11:44

Additional Author(s) / Creators

The Conversation

Date Published

Thu, 03/30/2017 - 12:00

Category

Media

Type of Resource

News Media

Fast Facts

Will the UK commentators fall into line and back unionism once a timetable for a vote has been agreed, or is a more permanent split developing?

Resource Address (URL)

https://theconversation.com/the-british-medias-progressives-are-coming-round-to…

Keywords

news media

Language English

Media Matters; how the media reports on indepencence matters

Stephen Richard — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 17:43:44 +0000

Media Matters; how the media reports on indepencence matters

Primary Author or Creator

David Patrick

Stephen Richard Sun, 10/10/2021 - 18:43

Additional Author(s) / Creators

Common Weal

Alternative Published Date

2021

Category

Media

Type of Resource

Podcast

Fast Facts

Craig talks to David Patrick, author of recently published book Front-Page Scotland which looks at how stories about Scottish independence were reported in the newspapers throughout the 2014 independence referendum campaign.

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Episode 102 of the Common Weal Policy Podcast

Resource Address (URL)

https://commonweal.scot/podcast/the-common-weal-policy-podcast-episode-102/

Keywords

news media

Scottish economy

Independence campaign

Language English

Constructing the Visual Online Political Self: An Analysis of Instagram Use by the Scottish Electorate

Stephen Richard — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 19:10:02 +0000

Constructing the Visual Online Political Self: An Analysis of Instagram Use by the Scottish Electorate

Primary Author or Creator

Jamie Mahoney

Stephen Richard Fri, 09/24/2021 - 20:10

Additional Author(s) / Creators

Tom Feltwell, Obinna Ajuruchi, Shaun Lawson

Date Published

Tue, 05/17/2016 - 12:00

Category

Media

Type of Resource

Academic Paper

Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)

13pp

Fast Facts

Through a qualitative analysis of images shared on the platform Instagram, we demonstrate that the Scottish electorate did indeed used image-sharing for political self-expression -- posting a variety of visual content, representative of a diversity of political opinion. We conclude that users utilised Instagram as a platform to craft and present their "political selves".

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This paper presents an investigation of how the Scottish electorate utilised photo-sharing on social media as a means of participation in the democratic process and for political self-expression in the periods immediately prior to two recent major democratic votes: the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, and the 2015 UK general election. We extend previous HCI literature on the growing use of social media in a political context and contribute specifically on understanding the emergent use of visual media by citizens when engaging with political issues and democratic process. Through a qualitative analysis of images shared on the platform Instagram, we demonstrate that the Scottish electorate did indeed used image-sharing for political self-expression -- posting a variety of visual content, representative of a diversity of political opinion. We conclude that users utilised Instagram as a platform to craft and present their "political selves". We raise questions for future research around power and inequality on such platforms as well as their capability of providing a persistent forum for debate.

CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Constructing the Visual Online Political Self: An Analysis of Instagram Use by the Scottish Electorate. Pages 3339–3351

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Resource Address (URL)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2858036.2858160

Keywords

Instagram

2014 independence referendum

Social media

Language English

Whose voices are heard in the news? A study of sources in television coverage of the Scottish independence referendum

Stephen Richard — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 19:02:46 +0000

Whose voices are heard in the news? A study of sources in television coverage of the Scottish independence referendum

Primary Author or Creator

Marina Dekavalla

Stephen Richard Fri, 09/24/2021 - 20:02

Additional Author(s) / Creators

Alenka Jelen-Sanchez

Date Published

Tue, 09/20/2016 - 12:00

Category

Media

Type of Resource

Academic Paper

Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)

23pp

Fast Facts

This analyses the referendum coverage on BBC’s Reporting Scotland in the final month of the campaign. Findings suggest that, despite the presence of many types of sources, male-dominated political elites were the main focus in the news. The coverage more broadly manifests a liberal democratic logic whereby the media represent the views of politicians and political organisations to the public, whose role is to make an informed choice between them, with comparatively limited opportunities to participate in the mediated political debate.

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his article explores the prominence of different types of sources in the coverage of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum on BBC Scotland’s regional news bulletin. It combines the most commonly used classifications of news sources in the literature and proposes an integrated taxonomy, in which official, unofficial, elite and non-elite sources may take on news-shaper or news-maker roles. This taxonomy is used to analyse the referendum coverage on BBC’s Reporting Scotland in the final month of the campaign. Findings suggest that, despite the presence of many types of sources, male-dominated political elites were the main focus in the news. Although the inclusion of some grassroots and citizen sources is encouraging, the coverage more broadly manifests a liberal democratic logic whereby the media represent the views of politicians and political organisations to the public, whose role is to make an informed choice between them, with comparatively limited opportunities to participate in the mediated political debate.

British Politics volume 12, pages449–472 (2017) fulll article behind paywall

Resource Address (URL)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41293-016-0026-4

Keywords

news media

TV news

2014 independence referendum

BBC

Language English

Online Allies and Tricky Freelancers: Understanding the Differences in the Role of Social Media in the Campaigns for the Scottish Independence Referendum

Stephen Richard — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:36:08 +0000

Online Allies and Tricky Freelancers: Understanding the Differences in the Role of Social Media in the Campaigns for the Scottish Independence Referendum

Primary Author or Creator

Ana Ines Langer

Stephen Richard Fri, 09/24/2021 - 12:36

Additional Author(s) / Creators

Michael Comerford, Des McNulty, University of Glasgow

Date Published

Fri, 11/01/2019 - 12:00

Category

Media

Type of Resource

Research article

Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)

Political Studies, Volume: 67 issue: 4, page(s): 834-854

Fast Facts

some campaigns – like Better Together – selectively adopt digital tools that fit with the command and control model; in other cases – like Yes Scotland – the application of digital communications technologies and the dynamics created by linking to other (digital-enabled) grassroots organizations can have transformative effects.

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Using the 2014 Scottish independence referendum as a case study, this article asks first, to what extent is the use of digital communications technologies, in particular social media, associated with fundamental changes to campaign organizations, specifically to the command and control model? Second, under what conditions are challenges to the model more likely to emerge? Using mixed methods, our analysis of the case demonstrates that radical organizational or strategic change is not inevitable, nor is there a one-size-fits-all approach. Technologies are not ‘just tools’ that any campaign with enough resources will adopt in similar ways. Instead, depending on a number of interdependent factors (i.e. context, resources, strategy, organizational structure and culture), some campaigns – like Better Together – selectively adopt digital tools that fit with the command and control model; in other cases – like Yes Scotland – the application of digital communications technologies and the dynamics created by linking to other (digital-enabled) grassroots organizations can have transformative effects.

Paywall access

Resource Address (URL)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0032321718811252

Keywords

Social media

Believe in Scotland

Yes Scotland

Independence campaign

Language English

The Media and National Identity: Local Newspapers’ Coverage of Scottish Independence during the Campaign of the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

Stephen Richard — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 11:26:05 +0000

The Media and National Identity: Local Newspapers’ Coverage of Scottish Independence during the Campaign of the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum

Primary Author or Creator

Jan-Philipp Wagner

Stephen Richard Fri, 09/24/2021 - 12:26

Additional Author(s) / Creators

University of British Columbia

Alternative Published Date

2017

Category

Media

Type of Resource

Academic Paper

Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)

30pp

Fast Facts

the 2014 Scottish independence referendum offered local newspapers a unique opportunity to frame Scottish independence in a particular manner that reinforces their influence on Scottish distinctiveness and secures their position in the media market. This gives reason to examine how The Courier and Evening Telegraph framed Scottish independence during the campaign of the 2014 referendum in order to assess if local indigenous titles capitalised on this opportunity.

Resource Address (URL)

http://www.wpsanet.org/papers/docs/JWagner_WPSA2017_TheMedia&NationalIdentity.p…

Keywords

news media

Courier newspaper

Evening Telegraph newspaper

Language English

Aye or naw, whit dae ye hink? Scottish independence and linguistic identity on social media

Stephen Richard — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 09:52:36 +0000

Aye or naw, whit dae ye hink? Scottish independence and linguistic identity on social media

Primary Author or Creator

Philippa Shoemark

Stephen Richard Fri, 09/24/2021 - 10:52

Additional Author(s) / Creators

Debnil Sur, Luke Shrimpt, Iain Murray, Sharon Goldwater, University of Edinburgh, Stanford University

Alternative Published Date

2017

Category

Language

Media

Type of Resource

Academic Paper

Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)

10pp

Fast Facts

The results suggest that although Yes users generally express a stronger Scottish linguistic identity than No users, they are not choosing to express this identity strongly in political discourse aimed at a broad audience.

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Political surveys have indicated a relationship between a sense of Scottish identity and voting decisions in the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. Identity is often reflected in language use, suggesting the intuitive hypothesis that individuals who support Scottish independence are more likely to use distinctively Scottish words than those who oppose it. In the first large-scale study of sociolinguistic variation on social media in the UK, we identify distinctively Scottish terms in a data-driven way, and find that these terms are indeed used at a higher rate by users of pro-independence hashtags than by users of anti-independence hashtags. However, we also find that in general people are less likely to use distinctively Scottish words in tweets with referendum-related hashtags than in their general Twitter activity. We attribute this difference to style-shifting relative to audience, aligning with previous work showing that Twitter users tend to use fewer local variants when addressing a broader audience.

Resource Address (URL)

https://aclanthology.org/E17-1116.pdf

Keywords

Language

Scots Language

Language English