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#ecprgc24 10 more days to submit proposals for the @ECPR @ecpr_ed section on radicalism, extremism and populism! @AnitaNissen and I welcome a broad variety of work on far-right & far-left politics, actors & discourses, parties & movements, etc. ecpr.eu/Events/Event/S…

🗣️ Deadline fast approaching for the 4th @ECPR Summer School on ‘Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’! The event, sponsored by @CrexUiO, features keynotes by @SLdeLange & Michael Minkenberg. Apply now! ecpr.eu/Events/261 @PietroCastelliG @ecpr_ed

Politics of Deliberate Inaction: The disconnect between platform justifications and user imaginaries on content moderation in a ‘free speech’ online forum. buff.ly/3qK31L9

It also discusses how Flashback maintains these policies through its community’s active encouragement via supportive posting and silencing of non-conformers, and the consequences that Flashback’s inaction has in terms of residual hate.

The article identifies a discrepancy between how Flashback justifies minimal moderation and how users had imagined the platform operating.

I have a new paper out in New Media & Society: "Politics of Deliberate Inaction: The disconnect between platform justifications and user imaginaries on content moderation in a ‘free speech’ online forum" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… @digsum

Refugees versus ‘refugees’: the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers. buff.ly/3oYhFxH

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Amanda Palmgren, Mathilda Åkerlund, and Lisen Viklund analyse how immigrants are understood by Swedish alternative media and the role that #Islamophobia plays, if at all, in these representations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

I have a new paper out! In it, we explore alt. news' reporting on Ukrainian refugees. We found that rather than being a threat, Islamophobic comparisons to Muslims were used to frame Ukrainian refugees as part of a white in-group: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01… @digsum @MCSjournal

I am grateful to the two reviewers for their insightful comments on my paper

Finally, the analysis showed how Sweden is positioned in a complex juxtaposition: as something both good and bad; superior while also inferior; a great nationalist role model but also a warning example, and how Swedish whiteness plays a central role in these depictions.

...in ways that highly resembled those of the European far right. Such framing helps the international far right form a coherent narrative and all-applicable template for the problems of Muslims facing the Western world.

My new paper on the paradoxical representation of Sweden by the US far right is now out open access in @scmrjems doi.org/10.1080/136918…

Can't wait!