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A battle for truth: Islam-related counterpublic discourse on Scandinavian news media Facebook pages

Lien, Anders NJ

New media & society, 2024-02, Vol.26 (2), p.839-858 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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A battle for truth: Islam-related counterpublic discourse on Scandinavian news media Facebook pages
Autor: Lien, Anders NJ
É parte de: New media & society, 2024-02, Vol.26 (2), p.839-858
Descrição: In this article, I aim to contribute to existing literature on counterpublics by analysing the extent to which competing counterpublics regarding Islam appear in mainstream news outlets’ comment sections on Facebook. By utilising, and slightly modifying, Toepfl and Piwoni’s pioneering theoretical framework for analysing (counter)publics, I identify an Islam-hostile counterpublic and an Islam-sympathetic counterpublic that operate in the examined comment sections. I conducted a quantitative content analysis of Facebook posts (and associated articles) published by 15 established Scandinavian news outlets in 2018 (N = 599) and the comments written by ordinary Facebook users in response (N = 6797). I found the majority of the comments mirrored the views presented in the established media posts, but a substantial minority of the comments engaged in counterpublic discourses, contesting the bounds of established discourse around Islam in the Scandinavian public spheres.
Editor: London, England: SAGE Publications
Idioma: Inglês

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