The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services

Valenzuela, Sebastián; Santos, Marcelo

doi:10.1080/21670811.2023.2301356

Digital Journalism

2024

DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2023.2301356

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The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services

Sebastián Valenzuela,

Marcelo Santos

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Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains

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Heaven Holds a Place for Those Who Pray: Instrumentalizing Religion and Disinformation the 2022 Brazilian and 2023 Turkish Presidential Campaigns

Fitzgerald,

Lokmanoglu,

Salles

et al. 2024

The International Journal of Press/Politics

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This comparative study examines the interplay of religious messaging and disinformation in the election campaign material of Jair Bolsonaro and Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the 2022 Brazilian and 2023 Turkish presidential elections. We employ a mixed-methods approach, combining computational keyword filtering and content analysis with qualitative discourse analysis and applied to a corpus of 10,519 posts across seven social media platforms. The analysis informs two key findings. First, in both Bolsonaro and Erdogan’s presidential campaigns, religious rhetoric and symbolism is used to bolster personal authority and in-group support to consolidate the idea of (presiding over) a majority bloc. Second, while disinformation interfaces with religious messaging in both presidential campaigns, we find that religion is overwhelmingly instrumentalized as a vector for political disinformation—thus, we did not identify any significant presence of “religious disinformation,” classically understood. Ultimately, our article creates space for further comparative and region-specific scholarship to explore how religion, politics, and disinformation intersect with authoritarian populism in modern elections and beyond, while also contributing to the conceptual refinement of “religious disinformation.”

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The Meso News-Space as a Framework for Studying Mobile Instant Messaging Services

Cited by 2 publications

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Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains

Meso News-Spaces and Beyond: News-Related Communication Occurring Between the Public and Private Domains

Heaven Holds a Place for Those Who Pray: Instrumentalizing Religion and Disinformation the 2022 Brazilian and 2023 Turkish Presidential Campaigns

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