Affiliation:
1. Universidad de Navarra
Abstract
Abstract
Recent discourse research has examined the rise of right-wing populism. Yet the predominant focus on political
parties and politicians means that we know less about how right-wing identities are performed among ordinary people with different
degrees of political engagement. This paper examines reader comments pages in three British newspapers, analysing how participants
perform, defend and reinforce their political identities in online fora. It traces how supporters of the far-right United Kingdom
Independence Party perform collective identities and enact political antagonisms. The conclusions emphasise how online media
particularly propitiate the blending of personal and societal discourses, and suggest that the internal dynamics of affordances
such as comments pages propel conflict escalation and heighten antagonism.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
Cited by
2 articles.
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