'Re-educating the Roma? You must be joking...' : Racism and prejudice in online discussion forums
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F21%3A00118723" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/21:00118723 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0957926520970384" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0957926520970384</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926520970384" target="_blank" >10.1177/0957926520970384</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
'Re-educating the Roma? You must be joking...' : Racism and prejudice in online discussion forums
Original language description
This article explores prejudicial and racist discourse in reader comments in internet news discussion forums. Based on data from an online debate among Czech commenters on the mainstream iDnes.cz news site, it seeks to contribute to the existing critical linguistic approaches to discursive strategies of othering. Analysing user comments referencing a news article on a sensitive social topic, namely the complicated reception of Central European Roma immigrants in the UK, the paper focuses on three salient themes found in the data: (a) the re-education of the ethnic minority; (b) the users’ perception of the media as politically correct and siding with the outgroup; and (c) the outgroup’s negative stereotype associating it with criminality. The paper argues that the discourse on these topics simultaneously relies on and reinforces the negative stereotype of the ethnic group, while revealing a complicated relationship between three stakeholders: the ingroup, represented by the commenters; the outgroup, made up of members of the ethnic groups; and the media, as representatives of the authorities and the elites. The findings reveal how quasi-humorous comments that involve such stereotypical representations contribute to the normalization of everyday racism against ethnic outgroups.
Czech name
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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
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-05484S" target="_blank" >GA16-05484S: The construction of otherness in media and post-media discourses</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Discourse & Society
ISSN
0957-9265
e-ISSN
1460-3624
Volume of the periodical
32
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
156-174
UT code for WoS article
000610314600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85099182472