1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910595035903321

Autore

Colombo Matteo

Titolo

Discussing the Islamic State on Twitter / / by Matteo Colombo, Luigi Curini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031070716

3031070712

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 pages)

Collana

Middle East Today, , 2945-7025

Disciplina

297.14

297.272

Soggetti

Middle East - Politics and government

Communication in politics

Terrorism

Political violence

Social media

Middle Eastern Politics

Political Communication

Terrorism and Political Violence

Social Media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The research methodology -- Chapter 3: Detecting the Sentiment towards IS and its evolution -- Chapter 4: A thematic study of the topics in the pro-IS and anti-IS tweets -- Chapter 5: The enemy of my enemy? Hostility and sectarian discourse between pro-IS and anti-IS Arabic-speaking Twitter users -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores how ordinary Arab-speaking social media users have reacted to propaganda from the Islamic State, rather than how IS propaganda has targeted ordinary users, thus providing a change in perspective in the literature. The authors provide a comprehensive account of the evolution of the Arabic discourse on IS, encompassing



all phases of the Caliphate's political evolution, from the apogee of the Islamic State in October 2014 to the loss of its unofficial capital of Raqqa in September 2017. Taking into account key events, the book also considers the most recurrent topics for IS and its opponents who engage in the Twitter conversation. The analysis is based on around 29 million tweets written in the Arabic language, representing a random sample of around one-third of all Arabic tweets referring to IS over the 2014-2017 timeframe. Matteo Colombo is Junior Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute, The Netherlands, and Associate Research Fellow in the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI). He obtained a PhD in Political Studies at the University of Milan, Italy. His main interests are in social media, political reforms, jihadism, and energy policy in the Middle East. Luigi Curini is Professor in Political Science in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan, Italy. His research focuses on party competition, comparative politics, quantitative methods, machine learning and text analytics. He has published over 50 articles in international academic peer-reviewed journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, among others. He is also author of seven books and co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations (with Robert J. Franzese, 2020).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484565403321

Autore

Hadley Steven

Titolo

Audience Development and Cultural Policy / / by Steven Hadley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030629700

3030629708

9783030629694

3030629694

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations

Collana

New Directions in Cultural Policy Research, , 2730-9258

Disciplina

700.688

Soggetti

Cultural policy

Ethnology - Great Britain

Culture

Political planning

Consumer behavior

Cultural Policy and Politics

British Culture

Public Policy

Consumer Behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Democratic Cultural Policy -- Chapter Three: Audience Development -- Chapter Four: The Development of Practice: Two Dilemmas -- Chapter Five: The Traditions of Audience Development -- Chapter Six: Characteristics of Audience Development -- Chapter Seven: Audience Development and Democracy: Third Dilemma -- Chapter Eight : Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Encouraging more - and different - people to attend the arts remains a vital issue for the cultural sector. The question of who consumes culture, and why, is key to our understanding of the arts. This book examines the relationship of audience development to cultural policy and offers a ground-breaking perspective on how the practice of



audience development is connected to ideas of democratic access to culture. Providing a detailed overview of arts marketing, audience development and cultural democracy, the book argues that the work of audience development has been profoundly misunderstood by the field of arts management. Drawing from a rich range of interviews with key individuals in the audience development field, the book argues for a re-conceptualisation of audience development as an ideological function of cultural policy. Of importance for students, academics and researchers working in arts management and cultural policy, the book is also vital reading for anyone working in the arts, cultural and heritage sectors with an interest in understanding how our relationship with the audience has been constructed. .