Recontextualising the news
This study explores how an extreme far-right alternative media site uses content from professional media to convey uncivil news with an antisemitic message. Analytically, it rests on a critical discourse analysis of 231 news items, originating from established national and international news sources...
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| author | Haanshuus Birgitte P. Ihlebæk Karoline Andrea |
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| description | This study explores how an extreme far-right alternative media site uses content from professional media to convey uncivil news with an antisemitic message. Analytically, it rests on a critical discourse analysis of 231 news items, originating from established national and international news sources, published on Frihetskamp from 2011–2018. In the study, we explore how news items are recontextualised to portray both overt and covert antisemitic discourses, and we identify four antisemitic representations that are reinforced through the selection and adjustment of news: Jews as powerful, as intolerant and anti-liberal, as exploiters of victimhood, and as inferior. These conspiratorial and exclusionary ideas, also known from historical Nazi propaganda, are thus reproduced by linking them to contemporary societal and political contexts and the current news agenda. We argue that this kind of recontextualised, uncivil news can be difficult to detect in a digital public sphere. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8a2c77736d3b411e9e6103124caa4bd12025-02-02T15:48:50ZengSciendoNordicom Review2001-51192021-03-0142s1375010.2478/nor-2021-0005Recontextualising the newsHaanshuus Birgitte P.0Ihlebæk Karoline Andrea1The Norwegian Centre for Holocaust and Minority Studies, Oslo, NorwayDepartment of Journalism and Media Studies, Oslo Metropolitan University, NorwayThis study explores how an extreme far-right alternative media site uses content from professional media to convey uncivil news with an antisemitic message. Analytically, it rests on a critical discourse analysis of 231 news items, originating from established national and international news sources, published on Frihetskamp from 2011–2018. In the study, we explore how news items are recontextualised to portray both overt and covert antisemitic discourses, and we identify four antisemitic representations that are reinforced through the selection and adjustment of news: Jews as powerful, as intolerant and anti-liberal, as exploiters of victimhood, and as inferior. These conspiratorial and exclusionary ideas, also known from historical Nazi propaganda, are thus reproduced by linking them to contemporary societal and political contexts and the current news agenda. We argue that this kind of recontextualised, uncivil news can be difficult to detect in a digital public sphere.https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0005alternative mediaantisemitismborderline discourserecontextualisationun-civility |
| spellingShingle | Haanshuus Birgitte P. Ihlebæk Karoline Andrea Recontextualising the news Nordicom Review alternative media antisemitism borderline discourse recontextualisation un-civility |
| title | Recontextualising the news |
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| title_short | Recontextualising the news |
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| topic | alternative media antisemitism borderline discourse recontextualisation un-civility |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0005 |
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