Mimicking News: How the credibility of an established tabloid is used when disseminating racism
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Mimicking News : How the credibility of an established tabloid is used when disseminating racism. / Farkas, Johan; Neumayer, Christina.
I: Nordicom Review, Bind 41, Nr. 1, 2020, s. 1-17.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mimicking News
T2 - How the credibility of an established tabloid is used when disseminating racism
AU - Farkas, Johan
AU - Neumayer, Christina
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This article explores the mimicking of tabloid news as a form of covert racism, relying on the credibility of an established tabloid newspaper. The qualitative case study focuses on a digital platform for letters to the editor, operated without editorial curation pre-publication from 2010 to 2018 by one of Denmark's largest newspapers, Ekstra Bladet. A discourse analysis of the 50 most shared letters to the editor on Facebook shows that nativist, far-right actors used the platform to disseminate fear-mongering discourses and xenophobic conspiracy theories, disguised as professional news and referred to as articles. These processes took place at the borderline of true and false as well as racist and civil discourse. At this borderline, a lack of supervision and moderation coupled with the openness and visual design of the platform facilitated new forms of covert racism between journalism and user-generated content.
AB - This article explores the mimicking of tabloid news as a form of covert racism, relying on the credibility of an established tabloid newspaper. The qualitative case study focuses on a digital platform for letters to the editor, operated without editorial curation pre-publication from 2010 to 2018 by one of Denmark's largest newspapers, Ekstra Bladet. A discourse analysis of the 50 most shared letters to the editor on Facebook shows that nativist, far-right actors used the platform to disseminate fear-mongering discourses and xenophobic conspiracy theories, disguised as professional news and referred to as articles. These processes took place at the borderline of true and false as well as racist and civil discourse. At this borderline, a lack of supervision and moderation coupled with the openness and visual design of the platform facilitated new forms of covert racism between journalism and user-generated content.
KW - racism
KW - letters to the editor
KW - borderline discourse
KW - digital journalism
KW - fake news
KW - FAKE NEWS
KW - DIGITAL-AGE
KW - POLITICS
KW - JOURNALISM
KW - MEDIA
U2 - 10.2478/nor-2020-0001
DO - 10.2478/nor-2020-0001
M3 - Journal article
VL - 41
SP - 1
EP - 17
JO - N O R D I C O M Review
JF - N O R D I C O M Review
SN - 1403-1108
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 248556959