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Social Media Mechanisms for Right-Wing Political Violence in the 21st Century: Discursive Opportunities, Group Dynamics, and Co-Ordination / Wahlström, Mattias; Törnberg, Anton

Wahlström, Mattias	Journal Article
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This article maps mechanisms by which online social media activities may contribute to right-wing political violence. High-impact studies on the wave of right-wing and racist violence in the 1990s and early 2000s established that mass media discourse on immigrants and previous violent incidents had a significant influence on the prevalence of radical right violence. This link was captured by Koopmans's and Olzak’s notion of discursive opportunities. However, this was before the dominance of online social networks and social media, which changed the media landscape radically. We argue for broadening and refining the operationalization of the concept of discursive opportunities in social movement studies as well as including in our theoretical models new mechanisms brought about by the new online media. In relation to radical right and anti-immigrant mobilizations in Sweden in the 2010s, we elaborate and exemplify three mechanisms through which activities on social media may affect the incidence of violence: a) having an increasingly co-produced discursive opportunity structure, b) making inter-group dynamics in movement groups and networks trans-local, and c) sharing (rare) practical information and co-ordinating activities.

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Political Violence ; Radical Right ; Social Media ; Interaction Ritual ; Discursive Opportunities

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Socialist Legacies, Discursive Opportunities and the Diffusion of Anti-GM Crops Discourse in Post-Socialist China / Guangsheng, Vincent Huang

Guangsheng, Vincent Huang	Journal Article
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This study unpacks the roles of local cultural repertoires and media systems in glocalising the social movement discourse on anti-genetically modified crops in China. The discourse analysis not only demonstrates how residual Maoism legacies are used to produce Mao-style movement discourses, but also reveals how the resulting ideological disjuncture has led the post-socialist media system to criticise, tailor or activate the Maoist movement discourse. This project calls attention to the impact of socialist legacies on shaping social movement discourses in post-socialist China. It also invites us to reflect on the perspective of "essential diffusionism" pervasive in the movement diffusion literature.

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Post-Socialist China ; Socialist Legacies ; Discursive Opportunities ; Diffusion of Anti-GM Crops Discourse

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