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Salma Bouchafra

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ID5154637
NAMESalma Bouchafra
GIVEN NAMESSalma
FAMILY NAMEBouchafra
SIGNATUREBOUCHAFRA S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Gothenburg
ORCID0000-0002-3790-1553
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2
  • My Europe Builds Walls’

    Open Access•Salma Bouchafra, Mathilda Åkerlund•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2026•References: 88

    This article examines the visual securitising discourse of Sweden Democrats (SD) through a qualitatively centred analysis of the party’s 2024 European Union (EU) election campaign and its official election slogan ‘My Europe Builds Walls: Against Immigration, Against Criminal Gangs, Against Islamists’. Through a comparative, cross-platform multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) of SD’s posts on Facebook, X and TikTok, this article explores …

  • The victimized Self and threatening Other

    Open Access•Salma Bouchafra•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 33

    This article explores two discursive formations that characterize populist radical right communication: the victimized Self and threatening Other. In recent years, this boundary-making practice has been more frequently conveyed within a securitizing logic in which an entity is wronged and therefore needs to be defended against another entity vilified and pictured as dangerous. Taking a comparative perspective and using Instagram posts as primary …

  • Fire, police cars and barricade tape

    Open Access•Salma Bouchafra•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    With the growing popularity of visual-centred social media, authoritarian populist parties are provided with more platforms and devices to position themselves as key securitising actors by engaging in the visual securitisation of issues related to immigration, law and order.This paper uses the 2022 Swedish electoral campaign as a case study to explore the securitisation in the visual discourse of authoritarian populist actors by comparing the Swe…

  • Conspiracy thinking and the role of media use

    Open Access•Jesper Strömbäck, Elena Broda et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 56

    In contrast to beliefs in specific conspiracy theories, conspiratorial predispositions refer to people's propensity to view the world in conspiratorial terms. As such, they are one of the most important antecedents of beliefs in specific conspiracy theories. Understanding the antecedents of conspiratorial predispositions is hence important. Despite this, there is still only limited research on the antecedents of conspiratorial predispositions. Pr…

  • The victimized Self and threatening Other

    Open Access•Salma Bouchafra•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 33

    This article explores two discursive formations that characterize populist radical right communication: the victimized Self and threatening Other. In recent years, this boundary-making practice has been more frequently conveyed within a securitizing logic in which an entity is wronged and therefore needs to be defended against another entity vilified and pictured as dangerous. Taking a comparative perspective and using Instagram posts as primary …

  • Conspiracy thinking and the role of media use

    Open Access•Jesper Strömbäck, Elena Broda et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 56

    In contrast to beliefs in specific conspiracy theories, conspiratorial predispositions refer to people's propensity to view the world in conspiratorial terms. As such, they are one of the most important antecedents of beliefs in specific conspiracy theories. Understanding the antecedents of conspiratorial predispositions is hence important. Despite this, there is still only limited research on the antecedents of conspiratorial predispositions. Pr…

  • Fire, police cars and barricade tape

    Open Access•Salma Bouchafra•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    With the growing popularity of visual-centred social media, authoritarian populist parties are provided with more platforms and devices to position themselves as key securitising actors by engaging in the visual securitisation of issues related to immigration, law and order.This paper uses the 2022 Swedish electoral campaign as a case study to explore the securitisation in the visual discourse of authoritarian populist actors by comparing the Swe…

  • Conspiracy thinking and the role of media use

    Open Access•Jesper Strömbäck, Elena Broda et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Communication•2023•Cited by: 2•References: 56

    In contrast to beliefs in specific conspiracy theories, conspiratorial predispositions refer to people's propensity to view the world in conspiratorial terms. As such, they are one of the most important antecedents of beliefs in specific conspiracy theories. Understanding the antecedents of conspiratorial predispositions is hence important. Despite this, there is still only limited research on the antecedents of conspiratorial predispositions. Pr…

  • Fire, police cars and barricade tape

    Open Access•Salma Bouchafra•ARTICLE•Social Semiotics•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 24

    With the growing popularity of visual-centred social media, authoritarian populist parties are provided with more platforms and devices to position themselves as key securitising actors by engaging in the visual securitisation of issues related to immigration, law and order.This paper uses the 2022 Swedish electoral campaign as a case study to explore the securitisation in the visual discourse of authoritarian populist actors by comparing the Swe…

  • The victimized Self and threatening Other

    Open Access•Salma Bouchafra•ARTICLE•Discourse & Society•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 33

    This article explores two discursive formations that characterize populist radical right communication: the victimized Self and threatening Other. In recent years, this boundary-making practice has been more frequently conveyed within a securitizing logic in which an entity is wronged and therefore needs to be defended against another entity vilified and pictured as dangerous. Taking a comparative perspective and using Instagram posts as primary …

  • My Europe Builds Walls’

    Open Access•Salma Bouchafra, Mathilda Åkerlund•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2026•References: 88

    This article examines the visual securitising discourse of Sweden Democrats (SD) through a qualitatively centred analysis of the party’s 2024 European Union (EU) election campaign and its official election slogan ‘My Europe Builds Walls: Against Immigration, Against Criminal Gangs, Against Islamists’. Through a comparative, cross-platform multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) of SD’s posts on Facebook, X and TikTok, this article explores …

Global Security and Public Health (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (3 works) · Discourse analysis (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Appeal (1 work) · Argumentative (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Business (1 work)

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