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<p>This study explores how an extreme far-right alternative media site uses content from professional media to convey uncivil news with an antisemitic message. Analytically, it rests on a critical discourse analysis of 231 news items, originating from established national and international news sources, published on <italic>Frihetskamp</italic> from 2011–2018. In the study, we explore how news items are recontextualised to portray both overt and covert antisemitic discourses, and we identify four antisemitic representations that are reinforced through the selection and adjustment of news: Jews as powerful, as intolerant and anti-liberal, as exploiters of victimhood, and as inferior. These conspiratorial and exclusionary ideas, also known from historical Nazi propaganda, are thus reproduced by linking them to contemporary societal and political contexts and the current news agenda. We argue that this kind of recontextualised, uncivil news can be difficult to detect in a digital public sphere.</p>
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This study explores how an extreme far-right alternative media site uses content from professional media to convey uncivil news with an antisemitic message. Analytically, it rests on a critical discourse analysis of 231 news items, originating from established national and international news sources, published on Frihetskamp from 2011–2018. In the study, we explore how news items are recontextualised to portray both overt and covert antisemitic discourses, and we identify four antisemitic representations that are reinforced through the selection and adjustment of news: Jews as powerful, as intolerant and anti-liberal, as exploiters of victimhood, and as inferior. These conspiratorial and exclusionary ideas, also known from historical Nazi propaganda, are thus reproduced by linking them to contemporary societal and political contexts and the current news agenda. We argue that this kind of recontextualised, uncivil news can be difficult to detect in a digital public sphere.

Recontextualising the news: How antisemitic discourses are constructed in extreme far-right alternative media

Department of Journalism and Media Studies

Nordicom Review

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This study explores how an extreme far-right alternative media site uses content from professional media to convey uncivil news with an antisemitic message....

Recontextualising the news: How antisemitic discourses are constructed in extreme far-right alternative media

Published Online: Mar 03, 2021

Page range: 37 - 50

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0005

Keywords
alternative media, antisemitism, borderline discourse, recontextualisation, un-civility

© 2021 Birgitte P. Haanshuus et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Recontextualising the news: How antisemitic discourses are constructed in extreme far-right alternative media

Published Online: Mar 03, 2021

Page range: 37 - 50

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0005

Keywordsalternative media, antisemitism, borderline discourse, recontextualisation, un-civility

© 2021 Birgitte P. Haanshuus et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
alternative media, antisemitism, borderline discourse, recontextualisation, un-civility