#refugeesnotwelcome: Anti-refugee discourse on Twitter
Ramona Kreis
In this study, I examine the online discourse of European refugee crisis on micro-blogging platform, Twitter. Specifically, analyze 100 tweets that include #refugeesnotwelcome, and explore how hashtag is used to express negative feelings, beliefs ideologies toward refugees (im)migrants in Europe. Guided by critical studies, focus Twitter users’ discursive strategies as well form function semiotic resources multimodality. users who particular use a rhetoric inclusion exclusion depict unwanted, criminal outsiders. These tendencies align with current trends Europe where nationalist-conservative xenophobic right-wing groups gain power establish socially accepted racism.
Discourse & Communication