Rapid Sharing of Islamophobic Hate on Facebook: The Case of the Tablighi Jamaat Controversy

Ghasiya, Piyush; Sasahara, Kazutoshi

doi:10.1177/20563051221129151

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“…The Emergency Program Director of the World Health Organization, Mike Ryan criticized the misinformation and unsubstantiated evidence circulating in this campaign (Jain, 2020). Ghasiya and Sashara (2022), in their study of the controversy on Facebook, found similar linksharing behavior (sharing misinformation) and small but tightly-knit right-wing sharing activist communities which have previously been observed in US Islamophobic campaigns (Poole et al, 2020). 5 These patterns have also been noted by our interviewees, who participated in sharing counternarratives, in the next stage of the research project.…”

Section: Coronavirus: Sustained Solidarities?supporting

confidence: 80%

“…Despite being a much more negative dataset, reflecting geopolitical flows on Twitter, it also shows the strong solidarity with Muslims in general whether that be non-performative, communal, or activist groups seeking to strategically challenge Islamophobia on Twitter. The rise of Islamophobic social media content from the Indian subcontinent has been noted by numerous studies (Awan & Khan-Williams, 2020; Ghasiya & Sashara, 2022; Rajan & Venkatraman, 2021). It is interesting that the pattern of prejudice is reversed in this dataset where the initial reaction of the far-right leads to intensely negative tweeting which gives way to a more positive “long tail” effect over time.…”

Section: Coronavirus: Sustained Solidarities?mentioning

confidence: 94%

“…In the big data, Sample 1 (of 433,574 tweets), India or Indian is mentioned in the account bios 24,808 times, Hindu 10,650, and nationalist 7,417 times. The evidence points to less rigorous moderating in this context but could also reflect the normative position of moderators in India (see also Ghasiya & Sashara, 2022).…”

Section: Coronavirus: Sustained Solidarities?mentioning

confidence: 96%

“…The event gained significant attention despite the fact there were many other religious gatherings in India at that time (Tierie & Ranjan, 2023). Other studies on Islamophobic content on social media in India have demonstrated how this event, and COVID, more generally, was the subject of a purposeful anti-Muslim campaign promoting Hindutva ideology (cultural nationalism) including a BJP 4 "IT cell," which resulted in increasingly polarized content in the Indian Twittersphere (Ghasiya & Sashara, 2022;Prasad, 2020).…”

Section: Coronavirus: Sustained Solidarities?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case of Brexit, the Christchurch Terror Attack, and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Poole,

Giraud,

Richardson

et al. 2023

Social Media + Society

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This article advances research on mediated solidarity, by analyzing the contestation of Islamophobia on the social media platform Twitter, in the context of Brexit, the Christchurch terror attack, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a unique longitudinal dataset, gathered over a 5-year period, we elucidate how evolving relations between platforms and trigger events can enable solidarity networks to shift dominant narratives. Taking each event in turn, we demonstrate how on initial analysis these events appear to generate solidarities that fall within a spectrum of solidarity. Brexit produced “expedient solidarities” where Islamophobia was leveraged in support of wider political identities and commitments. The Christchurch terrorist attack engendered “affective solidarities,” wherein expressions of empathy gained visibility but gave way to a long tail of hate. Finally, in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, we analyze how sustained solidarity networks arose through antagonistic exchanges with nationalist movements that propagated Islamophobic misinformation. Yet our longitudinal and comparative methodology allowed for a more complicated picture to emerge, which troubled existing typologies of digital solidarity. The broader implications of our findings for social media research are therefore twofold. First, we underline the empirical value of mixed methods approaches, as these complex forms of solidarity only became legible through combining computational, qualitative, and quantitative methods. Second, we argue for the theoretical importance of conceiving how the entanglement of platform affordances and events gives rise to multi-dimensional solidarities that offer the potential to sustain counternarrative content over time.

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Section: Coronavirus: Sustained Solidarities?supporting

confidence: 80%

Section: Coronavirus: Sustained Solidarities?mentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Coronavirus: Sustained Solidarities?mentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Coronavirus: Sustained Solidarities?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Expedient, Affective, and Sustained Solidarities? Mediated Contestations of Islamophobia in the Case of Brexit, the Christchurch Terror Attack, and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Poole,

Giraud,

Richardson

et al. 2023

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“…Islam itself and Pakistan in particular are often criticized and directly linked to terrorism. This narrative alludes to an Islamophobic polarization of social media in India in recent years, which has already been analyzed in numerous other studies (Ghasiya & Sasahara, 2022; Jose, 2021; Mahapatra & Plagemann, 2019). Also, the narrative that the so-called refugee crisis of 2015 was used to take the blame for subsequent terrorist attacks, which has been propagated in Europe (and especially in right-wing extremist circles), is a recurring motif in this Indian debate (Figure 6).…”

Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 81%

“#schleichdiduoaschloch” Terror, Collective Memory, and Social Media

Tambuscio

Tschiggerl

2023

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On November 2, 2020, the Austrian capital Vienna experienced the worst terrorist attack in decades: A self-proclaimed Islamist gunman killed four people and injured 23 others. The attack triggered an extremely strong media response, especially in the so-called social media. This article focuses on the days and weeks following the terrorist attack on Twitter as well as its first anniversary and the question of how collective memories formed within a very short time through the jointly negotiated remembrance of the terrorist attack by social media users around the world. The study also shows how the Vienna attack was incorporated into other pre-existing collective memories of other terrorist attacks and how it created memory waves spanning the whole globe. Within the first 48 hr, the narratives that should dominate the debate and the memory of the attack for the coming weeks took shape. The attack in Vienna was primarily reflected in places where comparable attacks had occurred in recent years and became a narrative part of other political or ideological conflicts.

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