“Do You Want Meme War?” Understanding the Visual Memes of the German Far Right

Bogerts, Lisa; Fielitz, Maik

doi:10.1515/9783839446706-010

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“…Perhaps partly because of this communal aspect, memes have proven to be effective vehicles for misinformation and disinformation. Numerous studies have shown how both state and nonstate actors have weaponized memes to spread hate, propaganda, and false information about political opponents (see, e.g., Bogarts and Fielitz 2018;Flisfeder 2018). Particularly well-known examples include those spread by the Russian-sponsored Internet Research Agency and the Reddit message board, r/The_Donald, which helped generate and "test" not only numerous memes favorable to Donald Trump, but also bolstered influential conspiracy theories like Pizzagate (Donovan 2019).…”

Section: Memes and Misinformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Memes, Misinformation, and Political Meaning

Lynch¹

2022

The Southern J of Philosophy

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Are most people sincere when they share misinformation and conspiracies online? This question, while natural and important, is difficult to answer for obvious reasons. But it also applies poorly to one of the main vehicles for misinformationmemes. And it can be ambiguous; as a result, we should be mindful of two distinctions. First, a distinction between belief and a related propositional attitude, commitment. And second, the distinction between the propositional content of an attitude and what I will call its political meaning. I will suggest that these distinctions not only can help us understand how we communicate online, but they also suggest a lesson about what we should be focusing on when fighting misinformation.

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Section: Memes and Misinformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Memes, Misinformation, and Political Meaning

Lynch¹

2022

The Southern J of Philosophy

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“…The simultaneous valuing and devaluing of weaponized autists is elucidated when their autism archetype is mapped onto values held by the group. The alt-right are known to value whiteness, stereotypic maleness, cisgender, heteronormativity, and 'rational' intellect (or pseudo-intellect) (Bogerts & Fielitz, 2019;Forscher & Kteily, 2020;Nilan, 2021) and these characteristics match their stereotype of autistic people. Alt-right ideology also…”

Section: Weaponized Autism the Focused Application Of Nerdiness Compu...mentioning

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“…it's thanks to autists like me that Trump is your President (if you're American), it's autists like me that keep balance within the universe. you're welcome values power, strength, capitalistic prominence, social dominance, sexual access to women, and being head of a household (Bogerts & Fielitz, 2019;Forscher & Kteily, 2020;Nilan, 2021), all of which are lacking from their weaponized autist archetype.…”

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Understanding the Use of the Term “Weaponized Autism” in An Alt-Right Social Media Platform

Welch

Senman

Loftin

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J Autism Dev Disord

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Background The term “weaponized autism” is frequently used on extremist platforms. To better understand this, we conducted a discourse analysis of posts on Gab, an alt-right social media platform. Methods We analyzed 711 posts spanning 2018–2019 and filtered for variations on the term “weaponized autism”. Results This term is used mainly by non-autistic Gab users. It refers to exploitation of perceived talents and vulnerabilities of “Weaponized autists”, described as all-powerful masters-of-technology who are devoid of social skills. Conclusions The term “weaponized autism” is simultaneously glorified and derogatory. For some autistic people, the partial acceptance offered within this community may be preferable to lack of acceptance offered in society, which speaks to improving societal acceptance as a prevention effort.

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“…The use of othering in visual boundary strategies in online digital communication facilitates the spreading of extremist images and videos to the mainstream (Askanius, 2019; Miller‐Idriss, 2018; Özvatan & Forchtner, 2019; see also Bogerts & Fielitz, 2019; Doerr, 2017). Through provocative visual contents and the use of sarcasm or radical statements often denigrating migrants or ethnic minorities, far‐right populist parties instill themselves as authentic spokespeople for the common sense (Caiani et al., 2012; Doerr, 2017; Özvatan & Forchtner, 2019; Wodak & Boukala, 2015).…”

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Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media

Awad

Doerr

Nissen

2022

British Journal of Sociology

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This paper explores how images are used in online far-right political communication to create distinct groups of "otherness." Focusing on the Danish People's Party, we look at how symbolic boundaries are constructed through images to emphasize an exclusive conception of the nation and its citizens, who need protection from the threatening "others." In order to understand the global rise of the far right, scholars of social movements and digital media have called for new research on how visual images serve the mainstreaming of extremist and nationalist beliefs online. We look at images communicated by the Danish People's Party on their Facebook page, exploring how digital images visually communicate the party's slogan of "Safety and trust" (in Danish: "Tryghed og tillid"). With a focus on boundary construction, we present a multimodal visual analysis of 1120 images posted by the party from 2012 to 2020. The data shows how the party constructs an imaginary of Danishness through an exclusionary impermeable boundary construction of a trusted in-group's values and traditions in opposition to culturally distinct "others."

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“Do You Want Meme War?” Understanding the Visual Memes of the German Far Right

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Memes, Misinformation, and Political Meaning

Memes, Misinformation, and Political Meaning

Understanding the Use of the Term “Weaponized Autism” in An Alt-Right Social Media Platform

Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media

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