Hi Jianfen, thanks for your case study on public affects. The Hong Kong Chaos in 2019 is a great example of how public affects are shaping and being shaped by the media discourse. Can you please elaborate more on the sample selection and analysis process? For example, how did you choose four YouTube videos? How did you analyze and code the multimodal content in videos? Did you examine the audiences’ comments on videos? If so, did the comments present similar or competing public affects compared with videos?
Hi Yeqing. Thanks for your inspiring questions. I selected the YouTube video samples based on the following criteria. First, the video must contain and represent the voice of one of the three bodies of publics I have identified during the Hong Kong chaos. Second, the videos have been viewed by at least over 500,000 times by the time I conducted this research. For example, the BBC video has been viewed over 1 million times. Third, the video has been featured, cited, or shared by other media such as newspapers to validate its impact.
As for the data coding, I followed the grounded theory and open coding principle to allow anything related to affects to surface and get coded, and then grouped these affects into the categories as seen in the presentation.
Unfortunately, I didn’t code the audience comments on videos as it is hard to distinguish which type of public the audience belongs to based only on the names or comments.
But your question about audience comments could be another study to explore the affects that the videos have produced among the viewers.
Jane Vaughan
1 year ago
You have a great period in time to study. I have similar questions as Yequing Kong. If you are looking at Youtube as the medium for shaping discourse, it might be interesting to discuss it in contrast to another medium such as Twitter in order to get a better idea of how the medium itself is affecting the discourse and vice versa. Could you perhaps discuss in more depth how the medium constraints and affordances are affecting and shaping the events that they are portraying?
Thanks, Jane for your helpful suggestion about discussing the medium constraints and affordances that are affecting and shaping the events that they are portraying. Your advice has pointed me to the direction of expand this case study into a research paper. I like this idea since the research site itself can only help us see the scope of the problem it affords if not all.
Brandon Strubberg
1 year ago
Hi, Jianfen. Thank you for sharing this interesting case study research. I too am curious to hear more about your video selection and analysis. In particular, several of the videos you analyze come from different news organizations, and I wonder how the lens of the organization might affect the ways in which these affects are delivered and, thus, analyzed. How did/do you account for the ways these affects might be remediated through the lens of the various news organizations presenting them?
Thanks, Brandon for your great question too. I think as a researcher, I am also constrained by my own resources and scope of understanding when choosing what I delve into for studying. As I shared in my reply to Yeqing, I have three criteria for choosing the videos. Nevertheless, I must admit that my choice of videos are inevitably influenced by the recommendations from YouTube too. As you may understand, when I started tracing the evolving event, I began to receive recommended videos YouTube sent to me based on their algorithm of my viewing history. Because of that, I deliberately selected videos from varied news organizations and even individuals to showcase affects of the publics these news organizations depict. However, I didn’t give sufficient room in this presentation to talk about how the lens or position of the organization might affect the ways the affects are presented to the viewers. This is something I could work on in my future study though.
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dcard
1 year ago
Thanks for sharing this case study! Like Yeqing, I’d love to hear more detail about how you selected and coded the videos, but I’m also wondering about how you identified the publics and whether the affect you identified could or should be one basis on which to split one public into two more granular publics.
Thank you, Dan for your great question. I agree with you that publics (not just the singular form of public) could definitely be split into more granular publics. Based on more refined criteria, the granular publics could bring out even granular affects that have not been covered in this small scope of study.
Hi Jianfen, thanks for your case study on public affects. The Hong Kong Chaos in 2019 is a great example of how public affects are shaping and being shaped by the media discourse. Can you please elaborate more on the sample selection and analysis process? For example, how did you choose four YouTube videos? How did you analyze and code the multimodal content in videos? Did you examine the audiences’ comments on videos? If so, did the comments present similar or competing public affects compared with videos?
I would like to learn more about your methods, as well.
Thanks, Jessica. Could you see my reply to Yeqing? Let me know if you have further questions.
Hi Yeqing. Thanks for your inspiring questions. I selected the YouTube video samples based on the following criteria. First, the video must contain and represent the voice of one of the three bodies of publics I have identified during the Hong Kong chaos. Second, the videos have been viewed by at least over 500,000 times by the time I conducted this research. For example, the BBC video has been viewed over 1 million times. Third, the video has been featured, cited, or shared by other media such as newspapers to validate its impact.
As for the data coding, I followed the grounded theory and open coding principle to allow anything related to affects to surface and get coded, and then grouped these affects into the categories as seen in the presentation.
Unfortunately, I didn’t code the audience comments on videos as it is hard to distinguish which type of public the audience belongs to based only on the names or comments.
But your question about audience comments could be another study to explore the affects that the videos have produced among the viewers.
You have a great period in time to study. I have similar questions as Yequing Kong. If you are looking at Youtube as the medium for shaping discourse, it might be interesting to discuss it in contrast to another medium such as Twitter in order to get a better idea of how the medium itself is affecting the discourse and vice versa. Could you perhaps discuss in more depth how the medium constraints and affordances are affecting and shaping the events that they are portraying?
Thanks, Jane for your helpful suggestion about discussing the medium constraints and affordances that are affecting and shaping the events that they are portraying. Your advice has pointed me to the direction of expand this case study into a research paper. I like this idea since the research site itself can only help us see the scope of the problem it affords if not all.
Hi, Jianfen. Thank you for sharing this interesting case study research. I too am curious to hear more about your video selection and analysis. In particular, several of the videos you analyze come from different news organizations, and I wonder how the lens of the organization might affect the ways in which these affects are delivered and, thus, analyzed. How did/do you account for the ways these affects might be remediated through the lens of the various news organizations presenting them?
Thanks, Brandon for your great question too. I think as a researcher, I am also constrained by my own resources and scope of understanding when choosing what I delve into for studying. As I shared in my reply to Yeqing, I have three criteria for choosing the videos. Nevertheless, I must admit that my choice of videos are inevitably influenced by the recommendations from YouTube too. As you may understand, when I started tracing the evolving event, I began to receive recommended videos YouTube sent to me based on their algorithm of my viewing history. Because of that, I deliberately selected videos from varied news organizations and even individuals to showcase affects of the publics these news organizations depict. However, I didn’t give sufficient room in this presentation to talk about how the lens or position of the organization might affect the ways the affects are presented to the viewers. This is something I could work on in my future study though.
Thanks for sharing this case study! Like Yeqing, I’d love to hear more detail about how you selected and coded the videos, but I’m also wondering about how you identified the publics and whether the affect you identified could or should be one basis on which to split one public into two more granular publics.
Thank you, Dan for your great question. I agree with you that publics (not just the singular form of public) could definitely be split into more granular publics. Based on more refined criteria, the granular publics could bring out even granular affects that have not been covered in this small scope of study.