Troll Tracking: Examining Rhetorical Circulation of Anti-Intellectual Ideologies in Right-Wing Media Attacks
| Autor: | Kristen L. Cole, Brandi Lawless |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Cultural Studies
Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Media studies 050301 education 050801 communication & media studies Computer Science Applications 0508 media and communications Political science Right wing Rhetorical circulation Tracking (education) Ideology 0503 education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Communication, Culture and Critique. 14:149-165 |
| ISSN: | 1753-9137 1753-9129 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ccc/tcaa035 |
| Popis: | This case study proposes a method of troll tracking to analyze how right-wing media attacks circulate and contribute to increasing anti-intellectualism in the United States. Given the increase in right-wing political “news” sites as originators of trolling activity and their propensity to espouse anti-intellectualism, we are interested in understanding more deeply how particular instances of this targeted outrage become rhetorical. Our analysis reveals how metaknowledge circulates misinformation through commentary that carries anti-intellectual ideologies rapidly across time and space. This process of detachment reveals important implications about the (re)production of anti-intellectual ideologies, the evocation of collective outrage that manifests as sexism and transphobia, and the gatekeeping of academic knowledge production. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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