Which Alternative? A Critical Analysis of YouTube-Comments in Anti-Fascist Protest

Neumayer, Christina

doi:10.31269/triplec.v10i1.313

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“…Further, as the Internet crosses borders and allows people from different places to be interconnected (Papacharissi ; Volkmer ), it has enhanced and strengthened the links among people who share the same political or religious convictions (Calhoun ; Castells ; Dahlberg ). Alternative media channels like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube provide platforms for self‐expression (Al‐Rawi a; Price and Cappella ), especially for the oppressed and others who are not represented in politics or the mainstream media (Neumayer ). Howard notes the Internet's increasing importance in the Muslim world by emphasizing its role as a tool “to attract international media attention by sharing digital content that undermines local authority and strengthens civic ties to diasporas” (2011:150).…”

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Online Reactions to the Muhammad Cartoons: YouTube and the Virtual Ummah

Al-Rawi

2015

Scientific Study of Religion

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The publication of 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad by the Danish newspaper Jyllands‐Posten on September 30, 2005, created a great deal of controversy over self‐censorship, freedom of speech, and accusations of religious incitement. Muslim activists organized protests, and later hundreds of people were killed and hundreds of others were injured due to violent reactions to the cartoons. This article focuses on how people used YouTube to react to these cartoons by analyzing 261 video clips and 4,153 comments. Results show that the majority of the video clips and comments were moderate and positive in tone toward Islam and Muhammad; however, a small percentage either called for jihad against the West or made lethal threats against the artist. Other comments carried curses or insults against Denmark, while a few others were anti‐Islamic. The fact that these online reactions were highly varied in tone suggests that the online public sphere is very much divided.

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Section: Youtube As An Alternative Media Channelmentioning

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Online Reactions to the Muhammad Cartoons: YouTube and the Virtual Ummah

Al-Rawi

2015

Scientific Study of Religion

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“…En lo relativo a la recepción de la protesta, la temprana investigación de Neumayer (2012) es pionera en demostrar el potencial de YouTube para esta área específica y realiza un estudio de los comentarios disponibles en videos sobre las protestas antifascistas que tuvieron lugar en el Este de Alemania durante el año 2011. La autora usa un enfoque mixto y, a partir del corpus textual, analiza la frecuencia de palabras, así como una codificación cualitativa posterior para evidenciar la estructura de las conversaciones y los antagonismos manifiestos en las interacciones.…”

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Una mirada al YouTube como espacio de recepción de la protesta social: el caso de Costa Rica en tiempos de COVID-19

Fournier

Leandro

2022

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Este artículo tiene por objeto analizar la recepción de movilización social en Costa Rica, en el contexto de la pandemia por el COVID-19, a partir del espacio de discusión pública online llevada a cabo en la plataforma YouTube. El estudio de caso, con alcance exploratorio y descriptivo, toma una muestra de videos referidos al ciclo de movilización social registrado en octubre de 2020 y parte de un enfoque de métodos digitales, al utilizar técnicas de procesamiento de lenguaje natural (NLP) para la identificación de patrones emotivos, positivos y negativos, en los comentarios de las personas usuarias en torno a estas protestas; así como temas o tópicos dominantes en la discusión en línea, esto a partir de la construcción de un corpus textual de N=5781 comentarios extraídos de los materiales seleccionados. El análisis revela una predominancia generalizada de polaridad negativa en el espacio de recepción a los audiovisuales; además, identifica tres diferentes clústeres temáticos de discusión que permiten dilucidar las tendencias de la conversación en línea, a nivel de las personas usuarias de la plataforma; estos ejes de discusión además presentan congruencias con las asociaciones entre vídeos que genera el algoritmo de recomendación de YouTube. Finalmente, los hallazgos de este artículo sugieren próximas investigaciones basadas en la aplicación de técnicas de NLP para los estudios políticos enfocados en la recepción de los fenómenos sociales desde las opiniones y valoraciones de las personas usuarias en redes sociales.

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“…Leipzig nimmt Platz , who was a cross‐section of the political spectrum, explicitly mobilized for peaceful resistance on their blog, in comparison to Roter Oktober , who clearly positioned themselves through their identity as an antifascist group mobilizing for blocking the nationalist demonstrations by any means, also violent. For some activist groups these tactics are used to radicalize their political positions and to generate radical identities in their struggles (see Juris, ; Neumayer, ). This process becomes especially apparent in the antifascist protests due to the contrast between the activist groups, some who radicalize their political position through violent actions and speech acts, as compared to the civil society groups who would only engage in nonviolent civil disobedience.…”

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Identity Negotiation in Activist Participation

Svensson

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Banfield-Mumb³

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Communication, Culture & Critique

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Most activism in connected societies has an online component. Social media accompany corporeal demonstrations, occupations, and protest marches. It is argued that such social media platforms play an increasingly important role when mobilizing across different political positions, coordinating and producing visibility for a political demand. In this article we will revisit 3 activist demands, all saturated by social media practices: (a) inhabitants in southern Stockholm fighting to save a local bathhouse, (b) the 2009 Austrian student protests, and (c) marches in Leipzig and Dresden to blockNeo-Nazi marches. The aim is to analyze activist identity negotiations in these social media saturated cases, and contribute to the understanding of activist participation in our digital and connected age.

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Which Alternative? A Critical Analysis of YouTube-Comments in Anti-Fascist Protest

Cited by 8 publications

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Online Reactions to the Muhammad Cartoons: YouTube and the Virtual Ummah

Online Reactions to the Muhammad Cartoons: YouTube and the Virtual Ummah

Una mirada al YouTube como espacio de recepción de la protesta social: el caso de Costa Rica en tiempos de COVID-19

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