About me

Research topic

Voices of outrage: online partisan media, user-generated news commentary, and the contested boundaries of American conservatism during the 2016 US presidential election (2021). Read here.

Dr Anthony Kelly is Digital Anthropologist at L’Atelier BNP Paribas, where he designs and directs research on the social and cultural implications of emerging technologies. Anthony is broadly interested in assessing the impacts of digital communication technologies on human sociality, especially as this relates to emerging patterns of political action and identification. He has published on topics including methodological tensions in online ethnography, the digital transformation of national and international news agencies, and online partisan outrage in the US. Anthony’s PhD thesis explored the role of online partisan media in contemporary American politics, with an empirical focus on “below-the-line” commentary on a conservative news and opinion website during the 2016 US presidential election. Anthony’s doctoral research was supported by a National University of Ireland Travelling Studentship in Media and Communications. He has also worked as a Research Officer on Prof Terhi Rantanen’s LSE KEI-funded project, The Future of National News Agencies in Europe and as a Research Assistant to Prof Nick Couldry in LSE’s Department of Media and Communications. Prior to beginning his PhD at LSE, Anthony was an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Maynooth University, where he designed and delivered seminar-based modules in Digital Anthropology, Political Media, and Globalisation. More recently, he was a Guest Teacher on LSE100, LSE’s flagship interdisciplinary course for undergraduates. He has also worked as a Teaching Associate in Social and Political Marketing in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London.

Supervisors: Dr Nick Anstead and Professor Nick Couldry

Expertise Details

Online Political Talk; Partisan Media; US Politics; Right-wing Movements; Democracy

Journal articles

Kelly, A. (2020). Recontextualising partisan outrage online: Analysing the public negotiation of Trump support among American conservatives in 2016. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01109-5.

Rantanen, T., & Kelly, A. (2020). Abnegation, accommodation and affirmation: Three discursive modes for the institutional construction of independence among national news agency executives in Europe. Journalism, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884919880060.

Kelly, A. (2013). Doing it Digitally: Methodological Tensions in Online Ethnography. Irish Journal of Anthropology, 16(1), 47-53.

Book chapters

Rantanen, T., & Kelly, A. (2021). The digital transformation of international and national news agencies: Challenges facing AFP, AP, and TASS. In D. V. Dimitrova (ed.), Global Journalism: Understanding World Media Systems. Rowman & Littlefield.

Online

LSE (2017) Remaking the right?

Reports

Rantanen, T., Jääskeläinen, A., Bhat, R., Stupart, R. & Kelly, A. (2019). The future of national news agencies in Europe: Executive summary. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.aeginold23jj.

Livingstone, S., Stoilova, M., & Kelly, A. (2016). Cyberbullying: incidence, trends and consequences. In United Nations, Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, Ending the torment: Tackling bullying from the schoolyard to cyberspace (pp. 115-122). New York, NY: United Nations.

Papers, Conferences, and Symposia

“Hybrid news media, networked publics, and the recontextualization of right-wing outrage online” at Rethinking Repetition in a Digital Age, University of Cambridge, 2019.

“The shape of things to come: hegemonic imaginaries, collective identities, and the strategic role(s) of apocalyptic imagery in the online political talk of the American radical right” at BRESTOLON network symposium 2019: Critical and Social Theory for a Future World, University of Bremen, 2019.

“Recontextualizing right-wing outrage in an era of post-television news participation” at BRESTOLON network symposium 2016: The meaning of mediatized social order and action, Stockholm, 2016.

“Talking Politics and Texting Selves: Linguistic Anthropological Reflections on the Regulation of Discourse and Identity in Digitally-Mediated Domains” at Erasmus Intensive Programme – Imagination: Translations – cultural, ethnographic, intermedia, Maynooth University, 2013.

“The Production of the Populist: On the Indeterminacy of Participant Roles in Political Mass Mediation” at Maynooth University Department of Anthropology Seminar, Maynooth University, 2012.

“‘This is getting a bit Gaydar, isn’t it?’: Tracing Trajectories of Ideology, Enregisterment, and Risk in an Online Social Network” at 111th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting: Borders and Crossings, San Francisco, 2012.

“Producing Populist Politics: A Linguistic Anthropological Analysis of Glenn Beck” at 12th European Association of Social Anthropologists Biennial Conference: Uncertainty and Disquiet, University of Paris, Nanterre, 2012.

“Paranoid, Pedagogue, Demiurge, Demagogue: Blackboard Didactics, Visual Rhetorics, and the Performance of Evidence in the Works of Glenn Beck” at The Art of Anthropology, University of Ulster, Belfast, 2011.

“Speech Styles and the Queering of Cyberspace: Contesting Modes of Textual Enselfment in an Online Social Network” at Erasmus Intensive Programme: Relationality and the Principle of Diversity, University of Vienna, 2010.

“Mediascapes, Virtuality, and Neologic Creativity in US Political Discourse” at Irish Media Research Network Postgraduate Conference, Dublin City University, 2009.

“Design, Convergence, and the Limits of Social Network Sites” at Ethnography, Creativity, Design, Intel and Maynooth University, 2009.

“Trust Me, I’m a Social Network Profile” at Anthropological Crossings: Memory, Identity and Belonging in an Interconnected World, Queen’s University Belfast, 2009.

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