Recontextualising the news: How antisemitic discourses are constructed in extreme far-right alternative media
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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 con-temporary 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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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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42(S1)
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37-50
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Link to article including link to pdf, Recontextualising the news: How antisemitic discourses are constructed in extreme far-right alternative media
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Recontextualising the news: How antisemitic discourses are constructed in extreme far-right alternative media. 2021: 37-50. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.2478/nor-2021-0005
