Anti-immigration panics: the role of online political propaganda in building the untrustworthy ‘other’

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Anti-immigration panics: the role of online political propaganda in building the untrustworthy ‘other’

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University of Otago

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In the last two decades, right-wing nationalist parties have been on the rise in several European countries. Depicting immigration as the problem of the country, political actors have instrumentalised social media to foment and legitimise panic amongst citizens – working similarly to the ‘tools of moral regulation’ (i.e. legacy media) in Cohen’s moral panic theory (chapter 1). By creating such a panic, political leaders have eroded the social fabric, undermining citizens’ trust in immigrants,...

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Scholarly text / Thesis

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Doctoral

Date created

2024

Creator

Venanzetti, Chiara

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/16702

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Political propaganda / Social media / Anti-immigrant / Moral panic / Racism / Intergroup trust / Italy

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