More Than Meets the Reply: Examining Emotional Belonging in Far-Right Social Media Space
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F24%3A10481642" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/24:10481642 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=StnV5z1rsy" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=StnV5z1rsy</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051241274665" target="_blank" >10.1177/20563051241274665</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
More Than Meets the Reply: Examining Emotional Belonging in Far-Right Social Media Space
Original language description
This article challenges prevailing assumptions that fringe social media platforms predominantly serve as unmoderated hate-filled spaces for far-right communication by examining the userbase's emotional connection to these environments. Focusing on Gab Social, a popular alternative technology website with affordances akin to Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, and its subgroup, 'Introduce Yourself', the research investigates how participants discuss their attachment and sense of membership within a far-right online community. Employing a constructivist grounded theory approach and a thick data mixed-methods technique encompassing netnography and sentiment analysis, I uncover the complex and impassioned narratives underlying users' sense of emotional belonging on the platform. The resulting findings demonstrate how counter-mainstream media acts as a unifying force by catering to the social needs of participants seeking an in-group of like-minded individuals. Moreover, I argue that fringe social media platforms offer participants far more than mainstream platforms, providing a positive interactive environment and a new virtual home for those feeling rejected and antagonised by other communities, institutions, and organisations, both online and offline. Therefore, the work offers valuable empirical insights into the emotional emphasis participants place on fringe social media and its implications for fostering attachment, community formation, and identity construction within far-right online counterpublics.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Social media + Society
ISSN
2056-3051
e-ISSN
2056-3051
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
1-14
UT code for WoS article
001302187000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85202652439