A Comparative Analysis of News Frames across Different Media Outlets : News Coverage of the Blackout Accident at the Nuclear Power Plant in Gori

박진우,; 이형민,; 한동섭,

doi:10.14696/jcs.2014.06.14.2.31

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“…Specifically, we focus on the links users referenced in the messages they posted in Vox-related threads. Whereas previous research (e.g., Pak et al 2020) has looked at links to observe relationships between media outlets, here we use links to analyze the sources of information users engaged with while conversing with each other and how such links were referenced in these exchanges. Our aim in doing so is to identify (a) the kinds of information that ForoCoches users in Vox-related threads engage with (i.e., whether news media, political parties, or other sources) and (b) whether such sources are ideologically diverse or mainly one-sided.…”

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How Right-Wing Populists Engage with Cross-Cutting News on Online Message Boards: The Case of ForoCoches and Vox in Spain

Miro

Toff

2022

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Anecdotal evidence suggests a link between online message boards and the rise of far-right movements, which have achieved growing electoral success globally. Press accounts and scholarship have suggested these message boards help to radicalize like-minded users through exposure to shared media insulated from cross-cutting viewpoints (e.g., Hine et al. 2017 ; Palmer 2019). To better understand what role online message boards might play for supporters of right-wing populist movements, we focus on the Spanish political party Vox and its supporters’ use of the message board ForoCoches, a fan site for car enthusiasts, which became an important platform for the party. Using more than 120,000 messages collected from threads mentioning the party between 2013–2019, we examine the URLs shared to show how mainstream news media events shape the conversation online and how users not only were exposed but deeply engaged with cross-cutting news sources. We argue that the use of sites such as ForoCoches should be viewed in the context of a broader increasingly hybrid political and media landscape where activity online and offline cannot be understood separate from one another. Moreover, our findings suggest that the online political discussions that take place in Vox-related threads on ForoCoches resemble normatively positive deliberative spaces—albeit in this case in support of illiberal political positions. In other words, our findings complicate conventional notions about the benefits of political talk, especially online, as a democratically desirable end in and of itself.

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confidence: 99%