The "fascist" discourse in computer mediated communication

The "dual strategy" model of the Italian Extreme Right

Bibliographic Data

ID3920151
AuthorsL Tateo (0000-0002-3207-6312, University of Salerno, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume20
Issue2
Pages287-296
Publication date2008-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsicologia & Sociedade (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-7182 • E-ISSN: 1807-0310
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0102-71822008000200016
OpenAlexW1964658216
SCIELO_PIDS0102-71822008000200016
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

The study is about the identity construction of Italian Extreme Right groups in different Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) environments. Rhetoric Psychology and Critical Discourse Analysis joint approaches are used to analyse two websites and two newsgroups of extreme right. The results confirm Billig's hypothesis that such groups play a dual communication strategy in Computer Mediated Communication, addressing in different ways to the outgroup and the ingroup. This communication strategy has two different functions. In self-presentation towards the outgroup, the emerging group identity fulfils the search for a wider social legitimation, consensus and recruiting. In the ingroup communication, the emerging identity construction answers to the need for preservation of group cohesion and positive self-image

Aesthetics · Cohesion (chemistry) · Computer-mediated communication · Dual (grammatical number) · Identity (music) · Ingroups and outgroups · Intercultural communication · Legitimation · Linguistics · Outgroup · Political science · Presentation (obstetrics) · Rhetoric · Social group · Social identity theory · The Internet · World Wide Web · Communication · Computer Science · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology

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