Discursive Toolkits of Anti-Muslim Disinformation on Twitter

IF 4.1 1区社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

International Journal of Press-Politics Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1177/19401612221084633

K. Bhatia, P. Arora

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Abstract

In this article, we investigate the socio-technical ecology of Twitter, including the technological affordances of the platform and the user-generated discursive strategies used to create and circulate anti-Muslim disinformation online. During the first wave of Covid-19, right-wing followers claimed that Muslims were spreading the virus to perform Jihad. We analyzed a sample of 7000 tweets using Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how the online disinformation accusing Muslims in India was initiated and sustained. We identify three critical discourse strategies used on Twitter to spread and sustain the anti-Muslim (dis)information: (1) creating mediatized hate solidarities, (2) appropriating instruments of legitimacy, and (3) practicing Internet Hindu vigilantism. Each strategy consists of a subset of discursive toolkits, highlighting the central routes of discursive engagement to produce disinformation online. We argue that understanding how the technical affordances of Social Networking Sites are leveraged in quotidian online practices to produce and sustain the phenomenon of online disinformation will prove to be a novel contribution to the field of disinformation studies and Internet research.

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在本文中，我们研究了Twitter的社会技术生态，包括平台的技术支持和用户生成的话语策略，用于在网上创建和传播反穆斯林的虚假信息。在第一波新冠疫情期间，右翼追随者声称穆斯林传播病毒是为了进行圣战。我们使用批判性话语分析分析了7000条推文样本，以研究指责印度穆斯林的在线虚假信息是如何发起和持续的。我们确定了Twitter上用于传播和维持反穆斯林(dis)信息的三种关键话语策略:(1)创造媒介化的仇恨团结，(2)占用合法性工具，以及(3)实施互联网印度教警戒主义。每种策略都由话语工具包的一个子集组成，突出了话语参与在网上产生虚假信息的中心路线。我们认为，了解社交网站的技术支持如何在日常在线实践中被利用，以产生和维持在线虚假信息的现象，将被证明是对虚假信息研究和互联网研究领域的一项新贡献。

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International Journal of Press-Politics Multiple-

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12.10

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8.30%

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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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