Racial Discourse and Partisan Blogs
How Online Commenters Manage the Partisan Divide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2363371 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey Dowd (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-51 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0731121415596082 |
| OpenAlex | W2475187586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
This article focuses on racial discourses on political blogs during one of the first racial controversies of Obama's presidency. I examined the interactional dynamics in the comment sections of posts from left and right blogs during the controversy. I found that the majority of participants on partisan blogs either racialized the controversy to promote a racial claim or deracialized the controversy to protect a racial claim from potentially threatening aspects of a controversy. I focus on the ambiguous challenges to racialization and deracialization that occurred in the course of internal debate over the specifics of the case and over nonracial claims. I argue that blog participants preserved racial frameworks by managing the ambiguity that arises from debates. This article contributes to the literature on racial discourse and political polarization by identifying processes that help explain how each 'national conversation on race' maintains and perhaps expands the partisan divide on race
Ambiguity · Conversation · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Racial formation theory · Racialization · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Studies · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Media and Politics
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |