How Love Island resurrected the joy of live television, by @sarahmanavis #NSArchivehttps://www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv-radio/2018/08/hour-day-love-island-made-twitter-kind-place-be …
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This doesn't sound like a 'kinder online discourse' - one of the examples is from last year's Love Island https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/03/love-island-itv-contestants-social-media …pic.twitter.com/fsElouy4Vf
yes the piece acknowledges this if you read it! it mentions racists infiltrating love island + how many other live shows have pockets of abuse on twitter. it's pointing out that for a lot of people it did become a break in their day where they could share in something w/other ppl
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OK, but you give an overwhelmingly positive sense of the online discourse - 'it transformed the way we treated each other online... the toxicity that usually envelopes Twitter dissipated... Love Island had an especially magical effect on how we talked on Twitter.'
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You suggest that negativity was a tiny aspect of the online response - 'there will inevitably be people there to ruin it... However, with Love Island we got close.' OK, that's your experience and interpretation. I don't really agree. But I enjoyed reading your article.
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