Troll Tracking: Examining Rhetorical Circulation of Anti-Intellectual Ideologies in Right-Wing Media Attacks

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2021-03-11 DOI:10.1093/CCC/TCAA035

Brandi Lawless, K. Cole

引用次数: 4

Abstract

This case study proposes a method of troll tracking to analyze how right-wing media attacks circulate and contribute to increasing anti-intellectualism in the United States. Given the increase in right-wing political “news” sites as originators of trolling activity and their propensity to espouse anti-intellectualism, we are interested in understanding more deeply how particular instances of this targeted outrage become rhetorical. Our analysis reveals how metaknowledge circulates misinformation through commentary that carries anti-intellectual ideologies rapidly across time and space. This process of detachment reveals important implications about the (re)production of anti-intellectual ideologies, the evocation of collective outrage that manifests as sexism and transphobia, and the gatekeeping of academic knowledge production.

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巨魔追踪:右翼媒体攻击中反智意识形态的修辞循环考察

本案例研究提出了一种巨魔追踪的方法，以分析右翼媒体的攻击是如何传播的，并有助于增加美国的反智主义。鉴于右翼政治“新闻”网站越来越多地成为网络喷子活动的发起者，以及它们支持反智主义的倾向，我们有兴趣更深入地了解这种有针对性的愤怒是如何变成修辞的。我们的分析揭示了元知识是如何通过带有反智意识形态的评论在时间和空间上迅速传播错误信息的。这种超然的过程揭示了反智意识形态的(再)生产、以性别歧视和变性恐惧症为表现的集体愤怒的唤起，以及学术知识生产的把关等方面的重要含义。

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Communication Culture & Critique COMMUNICATION-

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2.50

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5.90%

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