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Twitter-Based Social Accountability Callouts.
- Source :
- Journal of Business Ethics; Feb2024, Vol. 189 Issue 4, p797-815, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- The ICIJ's release of the Panama Papers in 2016 opened up a wealth of previously private financial information on the tax avoidance, tax evasion, and wealth concealment activities of politicians, government officials, and their allies. Drawing upon prior accountability and ethics focused research, we utilize a dataset of almost 28 M tweets sent between 2016 and early 2020 to consider the microdetails and overall trajectory of this particular social accountability conversation. The study shows how the publication of previously private financial information triggered a Twitter-based social accountability conversation. It also illustrates how social accountability utterances are intra-textually constructed by the inclusion of social characters, the personal pronoun 'we,' and the use of deontic responsibility verbs. Finally, the study highlights how the tweets from this group of participants changed over the longer-term but continued to focus on social accountability topics. The provided analysis contributes to our understanding of social accountability, including how the release of previously private accounting-based financial information can trigger a grassroots social accountability conversation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SOCIAL responsibility
TAX evasion
SOCIAL media
INVESTIGATIVE reporting
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01674544
- Volume :
- 189
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Business Ethics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175138277
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05316-6