Die Demonstranten

Vorländer, Hans; Herold, Maik; Schäller, Steven

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-10982-0_6

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“…Regarding Pegida’s supporters, several research teams conducted field studies to survey the protesters and understand why Pegida reached its unexpected public attention (Daphi et al, 2015; Patzelt & Klose, 2016; Vorländer et al, 2015). These studies report a rather consistent image of participants being predominantly male, working- and middle-class members with an average age over 50.…”

Section: The Right-wing Populist Movement Pegidamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Limited Influence of Right-Wing Movements on Social Media User Engagement

Schwemmer

2021

Social Media + Society

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This article generates new insights into the dynamic interplay between social media content generated by right-wing movements, user engagement, and the public attention movements receive. I argue that movement leaders seek to achieve high user engagement for utilizing mechanisms of information diffusion to increase both online and on-site mobilization. In a case study, I analyze the German right-wing movement Pegida, which uses Facebook for spreading its anti-Islam agenda online. Data from Pegida’s Facebook page are combined with news reports over a period of 18 months to measure activity on Facebook and in the public sphere simultaneously. Results of quantitative text and time series analysis show that Pegida cannot influence user engagement by simply creating more posts. Instead, it is the content of posts that matters. Moreover, findings highlight a strong connection between Facebook activities and the public sphere. In times of decreasing attention, the movement changes its social media strategy in response to exogenous shocks: Pegida resorts increasingly to radical mobilization methods by posting xenophobic content that is more likely to incite users to engage on Facebook.

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Section: The Right-wing Populist Movement Pegidamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Limited Influence of Right-Wing Movements on Social Media User Engagement

Schwemmer

2021

Social Media + Society

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“…Support for this line of thought comes from a previous study that investigated anti-migration protests in 2014/15, the PEGIDA movement in Saxony, where the mean age of participants was also relatively high with 48 years (N = 397) (Vorländer et al, 2015). provides evidence that identification with the high-status ingroup is an essential factor for the support of anti-immigration movements as those who are strongly identified, perceive more threat from negative intergroup encounters.…”

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“…However, for status protecting collective action, this age distinction might not hold true. Support for this line of thought comes from a previous study that investigated anti‐migration protests in 2014/15, the PEGIDA movement in Saxony, where the mean age of participants was also relatively high with 48 years ( N = 397) (Vorländer et al, 2015).…”

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Reclaim the streets: The link between positive and negative direct intergroup contact and movement support against immigration via threat perceptions

Pollmanns

Asbrock

2023

J Applied Social Pyschol

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In recent years, anti-immigration movements have emerged and aim to gain the attention and support of the public. In two studies (Study 1, N = 775, student sample; Study 2, N = 500, non student sample) we investigated the role of positive and negative intergroup contact to predict support for anti-immigration movements from native Germans in a context of a recent intergroup conflict. Using path analysis, we analyzed the mediating processes of threat perceptions for the intentions to engage in collective action against immigration policies and the justification of the protests.Extending previous research on collective action, intergroup contact and threat, we further tested the moderating role of the identification with Germany. Findings from both studies supported the predictive power of intergroup contact as well as the mediating role of threat for collective action intentions and the justification of protests. Our results suggest that behavioral support was predicted by a strong identification with the threatened ingroup, whereass passive support was not. These findings highlighting the role importance of identification for movement support.

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“…These protesters still oppose migrants, traditional media, and the German political establishment. (Vorländer et al 2015;Rucht et al 2015;Geiges et al 2015) expressed particular issues with Islam, which at the time was the main message conveyed by PEGIDA organizers on banners at the protest or on social media. Instead, protest attendees were more concerned about refugee policy in general and felt alienated from the political establishment (which partially led to distrust in the political system altogether) and were unhappy with traditional media news coverage of political events.…”

Section: Pegida Germany Since 2014 and Ongoingmentioning

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One Model, Multiple Stories? Using Agent-Based Models to Unveil Structural Similarities in a Complex World

Mayerhoffer¹

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The doctoral thesis argues that such transfer of the structure of an Agent-Based-Model from one real world application to another is indeed possible by means of story adaptation to the new application case. If successful, the transfer benefits research in two ways: (I) It improves efficiency for modellers and readers alike; (II) it can reveal structural similarity between these cases and help to assess the extent of this structural similarity. Therefore, structure transfer is no mere auxiliary to Agent-Based Modelling but an independent scientific endeavour. However, such endeavour may also fail or mislead in the sense that an identified structural similarity between two modelled situations does not exist. Hence, model structure transfer requires a careful execution.

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Die Demonstranten

Cited by 41 publications

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The Limited Influence of Right-Wing Movements on Social Media User Engagement

The Limited Influence of Right-Wing Movements on Social Media User Engagement

Reclaim the streets: The link between positive and negative direct intergroup contact and movement support against immigration via threat perceptions

One Model, Multiple Stories? Using Agent-Based Models to Unveil Structural Similarities in a Complex World

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