Paremaarmuslikud kajakambrid ja autokommunikatsioon

• Authors: Madisson Mari-Liis , Ventsel Andreas

Title variants

EN

EXTREME RIGHT ECHO-CHAMBERS AND AUTO-COMMUNICATION

• Languages of publication: ET

Abstracts

EN

This paper concentrates on the online communication of the Estonian extreme right that seems to be characterized by an echo-chamber effect and enclosed meaning-making. The discussion mainly relies on the theoretical frameworks based on semiotics of culture. One of the goals of the study is to widen the scope of understanding of auto-communicative processes that are usually related to learning, insight, and innovation. The paper demonstrates the conditions in which auto-communicative processes result in closed interactions, based on reproducing stereotypes and redundant content. We explicate antithetical meaning-making, an orientation towards normative (“correct”) texts and the prevalence of phatic communication as the main dominants that guide the closed auto-communication. Our case study is about the discussion that emerged in the context of the European refugee crisis that started in spring 2015.

Keywords

EN

auto-communication; echo-chamber effect; extreme right online communication in Estonia; phatic communication; refugee crisis of 2015; semiotics of culture

• Publisher: Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Institute of Folklore, EKM Teaduskirjastus
• Journal: Mäetagused
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 70
• Pages: 149-176

Contributors

author

Madisson Mari-Liis

• Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu, Jakobi 2, 51014 Tartu, ESTONIA

author

Ventsel Andreas