[Commlist] Special collection - Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives

List members may be interested in this special collection of /Open 
Library of Humanities/ about right wing uses of digital media and the 
difficulties of creating counter-narratives.

It's open access, i.e. free, and contains 5 articles exploring different 
issues associated with right wing uses of digital media & the challenges 
of creating counter-narratives:

https://olh.openlibhums.org/collections/special/right-wing-populism-and-mediated-activism-creative-responses-and-counter-narratives/ 


The articles are as follows:

1: Kevan Feshami on white nationalist media ecologies, detailing how 
different media platforms are used to create a nationalist 'voice' & the 
challenges this poses for democratic theory.

2: Muis, van Schie, Wieringa & de Winkel on populist politicians' uses 
of Twitter to disseminate Islamophobia (with a focus on Geert Wilders)

3: Poole, Giraud and de Quincey on the challenges of constructing social 
media counter-narratives against Islamophobia (in terms of longevity, 
combating disinformation, and relations with other media)

4: Eugenia Siapera on problems with the distinction between 'organised' 
& 'ambient' racism in social media guidelines, where the latter is 
defended under notions of free speech but they bleed into one another in 
practice - which allows extreme right perspectives to become normalised.

5. Siobhan Holohan on the way that counter-narratives related to the 
refugee crisis were constrained by & enacted neo-colonial discourses. 
This raises important questions about the efficacy of 
counter-narratives, particularly those that try to speak for others.

(plus an Intro by Elizabeth Poole and Eva Giraud).


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