The exclusion of Others through Facebook: The technological unconscious, the Orientalist unconscious, and the European migrant crisis

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666378322000083" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666378322000083</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2022.100033" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.diggeo.2022.100033</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The exclusion of Others through Facebook: The technological unconscious, the Orientalist unconscious, and the European migrant crisis

Original language description

The paper focuses on Facebook's shaping of communication regarding the European migrant crisis in the Czech Republic. Topological spaces in communication with entanglements of inclusion and exclusion were produced by practicing the communication, with the mutual influence of two kinds of the collective unconscious, the technological and the Orientalist unconscious. The paper is based on a participant observation of Czech-language Facebook groups and pages where discussions about the European migrant crisis proliferated. Due to the technological unconscious, algorithm-induced “filter-bubbles” helped to separate discussions of different opinions about migration so people with anti-immigration attitudes could be building European free-thinking people identities who distrust mainstream media, and people with pro-migration attitudes were excluded and considered trustful “sheeple”. Due to the Orientalist unconscious, European free-thinking people identities were strengthened by the sharing of ideas about uncivilized, irrational, and barbaric imaginative spaces of migrants' origin, which were entirely Other to Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50701 - Cultural and economic geography

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Digital Geography and Society

ISSN

2666-3783

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

January

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1-8

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85125126355