#refugeesnotwelcome: Anti-refugee discourse on Twitter

Kreis, Ramona

doi:10.1177/1750481317714121

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“…The importance of Twitter discourse in the domain of politics cannot be ignored. The previous researches exploring the use of Twitter (and other such platforms) from "critical" perspective for the construction of ideology and power have emphasized upon the need for further researches in this domain (such as Bouvier, 2015;Bouvier & Machin, 2018;Kreis, 2017). There are multitudes of power relations and power structures working at different levels in the discourse of political tweets.…”

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Polarization and Ideological Weaving in Twitter Discourse of Politicians

Masroor

Khan

Aib

et al. 2019

Social Media + Society

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The form and functions of political discourse have considerably taken a new orientation with the evolving ways of communication. Twitter is a platform that is increasingly preferred by the political elites for the purpose of gaining public acclaim and propagating political ideologies. The political discourse on Twitter requires a critical attention toward linguistic structures and strategies to uncover the relationship between language and social practices. For this purpose, tweets of two eminent Pakistani political figures are chosen for unmasking a variety of discourse strategies at work from the perspective of critical discourse analysis (CDA) through the socio-cognitive model of ideological square. The analysis uncovers the hidden ideological structures and strategies realized through a number of rhetorical moves in the selected tweets. The cognitive binary of positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation help achieving political domination and legitimization of political actions by controlling the public opinion. The underlying motives vary and are context bound such as the aims to topple a government or to restore public faith in the governance. This research is significant for political discourse analysts as well as the general public, as a means for analytical activism propagated by any CDA inquiry, and paves way for further research in the use of social media platforms for political purposes.

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Section: Snss and Political Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Polarization and Ideological Weaving in Twitter Discourse of Politicians

Masroor

Khan

Aib

et al. 2019

Social Media + Society

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“…As such, this article reflects on 'the refugee crisis' that saw the mainstreaming of racism globally. The mediatization and politicization of the 'refugee crisis' and anti-refugee rhetoric in Europe (see Goodman et al, 2017;Kreis, 2017;Krzyżanowski et al, 2018;Rettberg and Gajjala, 2016;Triandafyllidou, 2018) and their portrayal on global media with a political hostility accompanied by negative discourses (see Balabanova and Trandafoiu, 2020;Schuster, 2011) received much attention in the existing research. By harnessing widespread user reactions on Twitter, this article studies Turkey as a new migrant destination and breaks down the common themes of the online racist messages towards Syrians, when they have settled down in Turkey in the late 2010s.…”

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‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online place-making and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey

Özdüzen

Korkut

Ozduzen

2020

New Media & Society

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This article argues that digital publics unleash and bolster everyday racism, creating an unregulated space where anonymity and ubiquity enable the dissemination of racist message. By creating broader visibility and wider reach of racist texts and facilitating more participation for racists, social media platforms such as Twitter normalize gendered and place-based racialization of refugees. Recently, hostility and hate became the norm in derogating the refugee identity on social media platforms. To investigate the complexity of digital racism, this article presents a unique case study on Twitter, capturing the widespread user reactions in the aftermath of the mass resettlement of Syrians in Turkey. It examines varying racialization of Syrians on the Turkish Twittersphere, using sentiment and qualitative content analyses of hashtags and mentions on Syrians, when they hit Twitter trends for Turkey for a year, first, for mundane events and, second, during the Turkish state’s occupation in Northern Syria.

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“…After the attacks, rising levels of online hate speech and the fear that they might cause physical attacks became a matter of concern (Müller and Schwarz, 2017). The hashtags #Merkelsommer -Merkel's summer -and #Merkelmussweg -Merkel should go -were among the most-discussed topics on Twitter, asking for the resignation of chancellor Angela Merkel, along with general messages against refugees, such as the Twitter hashtag #refugeesNOTwelcome (Kreis, 2017) gaining popularity. 9 Recurring political rallies against the chancellor and her policies were held, and many politicians released comments attacking the open-border policy.…”

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“…The first tweet that contained #refugeesnotwelcome appeared on 10 August 2015(Kreis, 2017). The hashtag has been recurrently used since then in relation to the refugee crisis, including variants such as #rapefugeesnotwelcome after the New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Cologne in 2016.…”

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The Breakdown of Anti-Racist Norms: A Natural Experiment on Normative Uncertainty after Terrorist Attacks

Álvarez-Benjumea

Winter

2020

SSRN Journal

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Terrorist attacks can have profound consequences for the erosion of social norms, yet the causes of this erosion are not well understood. We argue that these attacks create substantial uncertainty about whether norms of civic conversation still hold. Observing breaches of these norms then leads people to express their own anti-immigrant attitudes more readily, as compared to a context where these norms are unambiguous. To test our theory, we examine (i) the impact of terrorist attacks on the level of hate speech against refugees in online discussions, and (ii) how the effect of terrorist attacks depends on the uncertainty about social norms of prejudice expression. To this end, we report on the results of a unique combination of a natural and a lab-in-the-field experiment. We exploit the occurrence of two consecutive Islamist terrorist attacks in Germany, the Würzburg and Ansbach attacks, in July 2016. Hateful comments towards refugees in an experimental online forum, but not towards other minority groups (i.e., gender rights), increased as a result of the attacks. The experiment compares the effect of the terrorist attacks in contexts where a descriptive norm against the use of hate speech is emphasized, i.e., participants observe only neutral or positive comments towards a minority group, to contexts in which the norm is ambiguous because participants observe anti-minority comments. Observing anti-immigrant comments had a considerable impact on our participants' own comments after the attacks, while observing anti-gender-rights comments did not. We end by discussing implications of the findings for the literature on social norms, sociological methods and policy.

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#refugeesnotwelcome: Anti-refugee discourse on Twitter

Cited by 107 publications

References 27 publications

Polarization and Ideological Weaving in Twitter Discourse of Politicians

Polarization and Ideological Weaving in Twitter Discourse of Politicians

‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online place-making and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey

The Breakdown of Anti-Racist Norms: A Natural Experiment on Normative Uncertainty after Terrorist Attacks

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