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The Emergence of Politicized Collective Identity in Online News Commentaries as a Form of Social Capital

The Emergence of Politicized Collective Identity in Online News Commentaries as a Form of Social Capital
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Author(s): Nahla Nadeem (Cairo University, Egypt)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 14
Source title: Identity and Leadership in Virtual Communities: Establishing Credibility and Influence
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Dona J. Hickey (University of Richmond, USA)and Joe Essid (University of Richmond, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5150-0.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter explores how online news commentaries as a platform for social interaction can be considered a form of social capital that later led to the Arab Spring Revolutions. In the study, social capital is conceptualized as consisting of two linguistically measurable variables: a) the emergence of the posters’ politicized collective identity (Simon & Klandermans, 2001; Simon, 2004) that emerges in the data through the foregrounding of certain shared aspects of the posters’ identity, mainly their Arab nationality; and b) the collaborative performance of face attacks and solidarity acts in the posting content. The data used are responses written to an article posted on the Al Jazeera Website describing the aftermath of the tragic suicide of the Tunisian Bouazizi. Drawing on contemporary theories of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and social identity, the study provides empirical evidence that such online communication should be considered a social and political capital that can foster social and political activism.

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