'Re-educating the Roma? You must be joking...' : Racism and prejudice in online discussion forums

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

'Re-educating the Roma? You must be joking...' : Racism and prejudice in online discussion forums

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

'Re-educating the Roma? You must be joking...' : Racism and prejudice in online discussion forums

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA16-05484S" target="_blank" >GA16-05484S: Diskurzní konstrukce jinakosti v mediálním a postmediálním prostoru</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Discourse & Society

ISSN

0957-9265

e-ISSN

1460-3624

Svazek periodika

32

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

19

Strana od-do

156-174

Kód UT WoS článku

000610314600001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85099182472