Public social media conflicts are dramatized and consumed as entertainment
Evidence
The incident was debated both online and in-person, and the amplification ability of social media created a wider set of stake-holders in its outcome. Conflicts like these are dramatized as they play out in public, and serve as entertainment for the audience. Further, while audience involvement can be seen as promoting accountability, social media also amplifies the amount of drama and conflict as other people besides the original two players become involved in the argument, chiming in much as gossip blog readers weigh in on the latest celebrity divorce or feud. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 593
Categorization
- CANDY: The observation that public Twitter feuds play like celebrity gossip for spectators is relatable and shareable.
- XREF: connects to: Unfollowing serves as a status-driven act of social protest — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 242; Online influencers become symbolic placeholders for audiences’ larger moral and political allegiances; Social media drives television producers to manufacture viral provocations — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 774