Tweeting Grenfell: Discourse and networks in critical constructions of British Muslim social boundaries on social media

J Downing, R Dron - New Media & Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The Grenfell fire has yet to be analysed to understand the event's implications in relation to
construction of social boundaries for British Muslims. In this current research, two …

Memeing and speaking vernacular security on social media: YouTube and Twitter resistance to an ISIS Islamist terror threat to Marseille, France

J Downing - Journal of Global Security Studies, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This article intervenes in critical terrorism studies and conceptions of vernacular security to
argue that social media has become an important arena for everyday constructions of …

Blurring European and Islamic values or brightening the good–bad Muslim dichotomy? A critical analysis of French Muslim victims of Jihadi terror online on twitter and …

J Downing - Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Victimhood remains under analysed in the Critical Terrorism Studies literature, including the
abilities of Muslim victims of terror attacks to blurring social boundaries and possibly de …

Exceptional and banal constructions of British muslims in Grenfell: Social boundaries, twitter, superdiversity and online vernacular memory

J Downing - Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Grenfell fire catapulted North Kensington into the spotlight, an area both
synonymous with immigration and social policy innovation for over a century. However, it …

Toward an assessment of marginality in democratic systems: The Charlie Hebdo debate in the United Kingdom

A Felicetti, P Castelli Gattinara - The British Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article offers a theoretical and empirical investigation of marginality of actors and ideas
in democratic systems. We do so with respect to the extensive public debate that ensued …

3.8 The Humorous Cruelty of Living

M De Unamuno³⁸¹ - Humour and Cruelty - degruyter.com
As to determining on every occasion what exactly each of us should hope for and how s/he
can argue for it convincingly so that everybody gets on board with him/her—or even how to …