How Right-Wing Populists Engage with Cross-Cutting News on Online Message Boards: The Case of ForoCoches and Vox in Spain

IF 4.1 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Clara Juarez Miro, Benjamin Toff
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Abstract

Anecdotal evidence suggests a link between online message boards and the rise of far-right movements, which have achieved growing electoral success globally. Press accounts and scholarship have suggested these message boards help to radicalize like-minded users through exposure to shared media insulated from cross-cutting viewpoints (e.g., Hine et al. 2017; Palmer 2019). To better understand what role online message boards might play for supporters of right-wing populist movements, we focus on the Spanish political party Vox and its supporters’ use of the message board ForoCoches, a fan site for car enthusiasts, which became an important platform for the party. Using more than 120,000 messages collected from threads mentioning the party between 2013–2019, we examine the URLs shared to show how mainstream news media events shape the conversation online and how users not only were exposed but deeply engaged with cross-cutting news sources. We argue that the use of sites such as ForoCoches should be viewed in the context of a broader increasingly hybrid political and media landscape where activity online and offline cannot be understood separate from one another. Moreover, our findings suggest that the online political discussions that take place in Vox-related threads on ForoCoches resemble normatively positive deliberative spaces—albeit in this case in support of illiberal political positions. In other words, our findings complicate conventional notions about the benefits of political talk, especially online, as a democratically desirable end in and of itself.
右翼民粹主义者如何利用在线留言板上的跨领域新闻:以西班牙的ForoCoches和Vox为例
轶事证据表明,在线留言板与极右翼运动的兴起之间存在联系,极右翼运动在全球选举中取得了越来越大的成功。新闻账户和学术界认为,这些留言板通过接触与交叉观点隔绝的共享媒体,有助于激进化志同道合的用户(例如,Hine等人2017;Palmer 2019)。为了更好地了解在线留言板对右翼民粹主义运动的支持者可能扮演的角色,我们关注西班牙政党Vox及其支持者对留言板ForoCoches的使用,这是一个汽车爱好者的粉丝网站,成为该党的重要平台。利用2013年至2019年间从提及该党的帖子中收集的120000多条消息,我们检查了共享的URL,以显示主流新闻媒体事件如何影响在线对话,以及用户如何不仅被曝光,而且深入参与跨领域的新闻来源。我们认为,ForoCoches等网站的使用应该放在一个更广泛、日益混合的政治和媒体环境中看待,在这个环境中,线上和线下的活动不能相互分开理解。此外,我们的研究结果表明,在ForoCoches上与Vox相关的帖子中进行的在线政治讨论类似于规范的积极审议空间——尽管在这种情况下是为了支持不自由的政治立场。换言之,我们的研究结果使人们对政治谈话的好处的传统观念复杂化,尤其是在网上,政治谈话本身就是一种民主理想的目的。
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12.10
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Press/Politics is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of the press and politics in a globalized world. The Journal is interested in theoretical and empirical research on the linkages between the news media and political processes and actors. Special attention is given to the following subjects: the press and political institutions (e.g. the state, government, political parties, social movements, unions, interest groups, business), the politics of media coverage of social and cultural issues (e.g. race, language, health, environment, gender, nationhood, migration, labor), the dynamics and effects of political communication.
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