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- Dalquist, Ulf, et al.
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Socio-economic impact on the digital child : Preliminary findings from the "Kids, media and socio-demographics 2014/15" report
- 2015
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Ingår i: NordMedia 2015.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This extended abstract presents unique additional data from an upcoming publication in the ongoing project Kids & media (2014/15), conducted by Swedish Media Council (2015). The analysis is based on the findings in the largest quantitative study on children’s media use in Sweden. The study includes 4903 respondents selected from a random sample of all children and parents residing in Sweden. The abstract includes data and analysis dealing with children’s possession of and access to media technology, how they use it and why. Moreover it covers several explorative multivariate analyses of demographic divides covering children’s media use. The demographic analysis assesses the impact of family income, parents’ education levels, and parents’ national background on children’s media possessions and practices. More specifically, this abstract describes the relationship between these socio-demographic variables and children’s access to media technology, extent of media use and self-reflexivity in media activities.
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- Ekman, Mattias, 1974-
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Anti-Immigrant Sentiments and Mobilization on the Internet
- 2019. - 1
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Ingår i: The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration. - London : Sage Publications. - 9781526447210 ; , s. 551-562
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter brings fresh insight into how various forms of online communication contributes to growing anti-immigrant sentiments in contemporary society. It assesses the strategies of anti-immigration actors as well as every-day social media communication. The chapter discusses the affective dimension of social media use with an emphasis on how emotions and affect drive the circulation of anti-immigration discourse on internet. It demonstrates how anti-immigration and racist sentiments in public discourse are moulded through interactivity across media spaces, organised political activity and the mundane use of social media platforms by citizens. It argues that “uncivil” expressions on the internet push the boundaries of publicly acceptable speak and ultimately impact the broader public discourse on migration and migrants.
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- Ekman, Mattias, 1974-
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Anti-immigration and racist discourse in social media
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Journal of Communication. - : Sage Publications. - 0267-3231 .- 1460-3705. ; 34:6, s. 606-618
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article assesses the strategies of anti-immigration actors on social media and the discursive construction of immigrants and refugees in user interaction on Facebook. It emphasizes the particular role of emotions in racist discourse and analyses how an open Facebook group generates and circulates anti-immigration and racist sentiments to a large audience. By analysing the general communicative features of the group, including user interaction, it demonstrates how anti-immigration and racist sentiments are moulded through interactivity between actors in an open digital space. Moreover, the article emphasizes that anti-immigration groups online can be understood as affective publics, in which racial expressions and overt racism are becoming increasingly normalized. It also argues that these publics must be taken into consideration when addressing the causes of anti-immigration and racist sentiments in contemporary societies.
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- Ekman, Mattias, 1974-
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Anti-refugee Mobilization in Social Media : The Case of Soldiers of Odin
- 2018
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Ingår i: Social Media + Society. - : Sage Publications. - 2056-3051. ; 4:1, s. 1-11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the wake of the international refugee crisis, racist attitudes are becoming more publicly evident across the European Union. Propelled by the attacks in Köln on New Year’s Eve 2015 and harsher public sentiments on immigration, vigilante gangs have emerged in various European cities. These gangs mobilize through social media networks and claim to protect citizens from alleged violent and sexual attacks by refugees. This article analyzes how racist actors use social media to mobilize and organize street politics targeting refugees/immigrants. The aim is to explore the relation between social media and anti-refugee mobilization in a time of perceived insecurity and forced migration. The study uses the vigilante network Soldiers of Odin as a specific case, looking at (1) how they communicate through social media, (2) how they are represented in the large “alternative” space of right-wing online sites, and (3) how they are represented in traditional mainstream news. Using a critical adaption of Cammaerts’ theory of “mediation opportunity structure,” the article explicates the (inverted) rationale of racist online networks. Using quantitative and qualitative content analysis, both social media content and traditional news media are examined. The results show that although racist actors succeed in utilizing many of the opportunities embedded in social media communication and protest logic, they are also subject to constraints, such as a lack of public support and negative framing in news media. The article calls for more research on the (critical) relationship between uncivil engagement and social media networks.
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- Ekman, Mattias, 1974-, et al.
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Celebrity politics in an age of visual connectivity : Exploring Instagram as a platform for political mass-self communication
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores Instagram as a platform for political mass-self communication. Drawing on theories of mediatization and celebrity politics, it analyses how various forms of symbolic connectivity are expressed and performed by 16 leading politicians in Sweden, and moreover how their social media use relate to traditional mainstream media. The study leans on a content analysis (n=800) and results show that journalism still holds a strong symbolic value, even when politicians are in charge of the political discourse. In addition, it reveals how the platform logic of Instagram contributes to the formation of digital life style politics, where symbolic connections between politicians and a variety of actors are staged through new mediatized relations. Visual political communication does inherit a democratic and interactive potential. However, according to the analyzed data, most politicians avoid public interaction. Instead, they are preoccupied with the branding of their public persona.
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- Ekman, Mattias, 1974-
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Journalistiken och nyhetskällorna
- 2019. - 2
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Ingår i: Handbok i journalistikforskning. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144124636 ; , s. 157-170
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- Ekman, Mattias, 1974-, et al.
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Media life and everyday negotiations : New (and old) conflicts in digital family life
- 2015
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Ingår i: NordMedia 2015.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The mediatization of everyday life implies that media practices increasingly (re)shape social relations within family life (Clarke, 2014). Devices such as the smart phone and the tablet computer have become mundane tools, integrated in most children’s everyday life. An intricate repertoire of media practices reshape family relations and create new, and reinforce old, family conflicts. However, despite the rapid change in the social practices of children’s life, as a result of a more advanced media use, there is surprisingly little research on media related family conflicts. A growing body of scholarly work highlights the impact and consequences of children’s digital media use, but the amount of empirical studies that actually assess family conflict as an object of inquiry are few. In an attempt to fill this research gap, this paper aims to assess how children and parents view and deal with conflicts associated with children’s increasingly advanced media use in relation to contemporary family life. The analysis is based on survey data from 1597 children in Sweden. Moreover, the paper also includes an analysis of more than 30 qualitative interviews with children and parents. The paper highlights the implications of new (and old) media use of children in relation to the family context – scrutinizing both children’s and parents’ perspective on conflicts and conflict negotiations in everyday life situations. The paper includes a theoretical framework for the study, findings from the large scale quantitative data, and a preliminary analysis from the qualitative interviews with parents and children.
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- Ekman, Mattias, 1974-
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Mellan auktoritet och autonomi : Medieanvändning, föräldramedling och konflikter i familjelivet
- 2016
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Den här rapporten handlar om barns medieanvändning, de strategier som föräldrar tillämpar för att kontrollera sitt barns medieanvändning och de familjekonflikter som barns mediebruk kan ge upphov till. Studien undersöker dels vilka konflikter som uppstår kring barns medieanvändning, och dels hur barn och föräldrar uppfattar och hanterar konfliktsituationer. Studien baseras på en kombination av kvantitativ och kvalitativ metod, i vilken statistisk analys av enkätdata kompletteras med analyser av kvalitativa intervjuer med barn och föräldrar. Rapporten bidrar med ny kunskap om barns medieanvändning och barn–föräldrarelationer i vardagslivet.
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- Ekman, Mattias, 1974-
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Online Islamophobia and the politics of fear : manufacturing the green scare
- 2015
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Ingår i: Ethnic and Racial Studies. - : Routledge. - 0141-9870 .- 1466-4356. ; 38:11, s. 1986-2002
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Negative attitudes and explicit racism against Muslims are increasingly visible in public discourse throughout Europe. Right-wing populist parties have strengthened their positions by focusing on the ‘Islamic threat’ to the West. Concurrently, the Internet has facilitated a space where racist attitudes towards Muslims are easily disseminated into the public debate, fuelling animosity against European Muslims. This paper explores part of the online Islamophobic network and scrutinizes the discursive strategies deployed by three ‘prominent’ online actors. By combining social network analysis and critical discourse analysis, the study shows that Islamophobic web pages constitute a dynamic network with ties to different political and geographical milieus. They create a seemingly mainstream political position by framing racist standpoints as a defence of Western values and freedom of speech. The study also shows that Islamophobic discourse is strengthened by xenophobic currents within mass media, and by the legitimization of intellectuals and political actors.
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