An analysis of social media content shared by right-wing extremist groups in the United States, the Great Britain and Australia

dc.authoridBas, Ozen/0000-0002-8895-9704
dc.authorwosidBas, Ozen/AAM-8969-2020
dc.contributor.authorMasalha, Oday
dc.contributor.authorBas, Ozen
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-23T21:36:51Z
dc.date.available2024-06-23T21:36:51Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentKadir Has Universityen_US
dc.department-temp[Masalha, Oday] Kadir Has Univ, Dept New Media, Istanbul, Turkiye; [Bas, Ozen] Kadir Has Univ, Fac Commun, Dept New Media, Istanbul, Turkiyeen_US
dc.descriptionBas, Ozen/0000-0002-8895-9704en_US
dc.description.abstractThe extreme right movements have increasingly appeared on social media, especially on Twitter and Facebook, coinciding with the 2019 New Zealand attack, the 2019 El Paso incident, and Britain's exit from the European Union in 2020. This study examines the content and the form of extreme right-wing activities on Facebook and Twitter to promote their ideologies. A qualitative content analysis was conducted on posts shared by extreme-right groups on public Facebook and Twitter accounts in Great Britain, the United States and Australia. The sample spans from March 15, 2019 to February 5, 2020. The posts were coded according to a coding instrument developed based on the existing literature spreading extremist ideologies on social media. The coding instrument consisted of categories and subcategories such as 'the protection of western values', 'anti-LGBT activism', 'anti-feminism', 'anti-Islam', 'anti-immigrant sentiments', 'fostering the white race', and 'anti-elitist populism'. Findings suggest that the most prevalent extremist ideologies on Facebook and Twitter posts were 'anti-elitist populism' and 'the protection of western values'. Also, extremist groups heavily shared posts that combined texts and images to spread their ideologies on social media.en_US
dc.identifier.citation1
dc.identifier.doi10.26650/CONNECTIST2023-1055875
dc.identifier.endpage182en_US
dc.identifier.issn2636-8943
dc.identifier.issue64en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/A
dc.identifier.startpage155en_US
dc.identifier.trdizinid1187370
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.26650/CONNECTIST2023-1055875
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/5654
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001052403500006
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.institutionauthorBaş, Özen
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIstanbul Univ, Fac Communicationen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectTwitteren_US
dc.subjectFacebooken_US
dc.subjectRight Extremist Groupsen_US
dc.subjectContent Analysisen_US
dc.titleAn analysis of social media content shared by right-wing extremist groups in the United States, the Great Britain and Australiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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