‘The nightmare of multiculturalism’: Interpreting and deploying anti-immigration rhetoric in social media
| Autor: | Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti, Emma Nortio, Miira Niska, Tuuli Anna Renvik |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Sociology and Political Science
Frame analysis business.industry Communication media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Media studies 050801 communication & media studies 050109 social psychology Populism 0508 media and communications Political science Multiculturalism Rhetoric Frame (artificial intelligence) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social media The Internet business Prejudice (legal term) media_common |
| Zdroj: | New Media & Society. 23:438-456 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7315 1461-4448 |
| Popis: | Social media is an important transmitter of anti-immigration political rhetoric. In this study, we examine the discussions posted in a Finnish online forum provoked by an MP’s anti-multiculturalist Facebook post. We draw upon frame analysis and discursive social psychology to analyse the communicative processes that challenge and normalise anti-immigration political rhetoric. Using frame analysis, we study how forum users entered heated societal discussion on multiculturalism by framing the MP’s anti-multiculturalist address as either hate speech or – more dominantly – as normal political conduct. Using discursive social psychology, we examine constructions of multiculturalism in these discussions. We demonstrate how anti-immigration political communication was normalised, multiculturalism was constructed as a threat and the proponents of multiculturalism were discredited. We argue that to understand the rise of anti-immigration political movements, it is important to examine everyday political deliberation online as part of a wider discursive landscape. |
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