Platformed antagonism: Racist discourses on fake Muslim Facebook pages
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Platformed antagonism : Racist discourses on fake Muslim Facebook pages. / Farkas, Johan; Schou, Jannick; Neumayer, Christina.
I: Critical Discourse Studies, Bind 15, Nr. 5, 2018, s. 463-480.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Platformed antagonism
T2 - Racist discourses on fake Muslim Facebook pages
AU - Farkas, Johan
AU - Schou, Jannick
AU - Neumayer, Christina
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This research examines how fake identities on social media create and sustain antagonistic and racist discourses. It does so by analysing 11 Danish Facebook pages, disguised as Muslim extremists living in Denmark, conspiring to kill and rape Danish citizens. It explores how anonymous content producers utilise Facebook's socio-technical characteristics to construct, what we propose to term as, platformed antagonism. This term refers to socio-technical and discursive practices that produce new modes of antagonistic relations on social media platforms. Through a discourse-theoretical analysis of posts, images, about' sections and user comments on the studied Facebook pages, the article highlights how antagonism between ethno-cultural identities is produced on social media through fictitious social media accounts, prompting thousands of user reactions. These findings enhance our current understanding of how antagonism and racism are constructed and amplified within social media environments.
AB - This research examines how fake identities on social media create and sustain antagonistic and racist discourses. It does so by analysing 11 Danish Facebook pages, disguised as Muslim extremists living in Denmark, conspiring to kill and rape Danish citizens. It explores how anonymous content producers utilise Facebook's socio-technical characteristics to construct, what we propose to term as, platformed antagonism. This term refers to socio-technical and discursive practices that produce new modes of antagonistic relations on social media platforms. Through a discourse-theoretical analysis of posts, images, about' sections and user comments on the studied Facebook pages, the article highlights how antagonism between ethno-cultural identities is produced on social media through fictitious social media accounts, prompting thousands of user reactions. These findings enhance our current understanding of how antagonism and racism are constructed and amplified within social media environments.
KW - Platformed antagonism
KW - racism
KW - fake identities
KW - Islamophobia
KW - anti-Muslim
KW - discourse theory
KW - social media
KW - Facebook
KW - Denmark
KW - SOCIAL MEDIA
KW - ISLAMOPHOBIA
KW - INTERNET
KW - HATE
U2 - 10.1080/17405904.2018.1450276
DO - 10.1080/17405904.2018.1450276
M3 - Journal article
VL - 15
SP - 463
EP - 480
JO - Critical Discourse Studies
JF - Critical Discourse Studies
SN - 1740-5904
IS - 5
ER -
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