'The nightmare of multiculturalism': Interpreting and deploying anti-immigration rhetoric in social media

E Nortio, M Niska, TA Renvik… - New Media & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
New Media & Society, 2021journals.sagepub.com
Social media is an important transmitter of anti-immigration political rhetoric. In this study, we
examine the discussions posted in a Finnish online forum provoked by an MP's anti-
multiculturalist Facebook post. We draw upon frame analysis and discursive social
psychology to analyse the communicative processes that challenge and normalise anti-
immigration political rhetoric. Using frame analysis, we study how forum users entered
heated societal discussion on multiculturalism by framing the MP's anti-multiculturalist …
Social media is an important transmitter of anti-immigration political rhetoric. In this study, we examine the discussions posted in a Finnish online forum provoked by an MP’s anti-multiculturalist Facebook post. We draw upon frame analysis and discursive social psychology to analyse the communicative processes that challenge and normalise anti-immigration political rhetoric. Using frame analysis, we study how forum users entered heated societal discussion on multiculturalism by framing the MP’s anti-multiculturalist address as either hate speech or – more dominantly – as normal political conduct. Using discursive social psychology, we examine constructions of multiculturalism in these discussions. We demonstrate how anti-immigration political communication was normalised, multiculturalism was constructed as a threat and the proponents of multiculturalism were discredited. We argue that to understand the rise of anti-immigration political movements, it is important to examine everyday political deliberation online as part of a wider discursive landscape.
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