From Twitter to Capitol Hill

Far-Right Authoritarian Populist Discourses, Social Media and Critical Pedagogy
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-42830-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 334 g

Reihe: Critical Media Literacies Series

What does the backlash against Critical Race Theory, the Capitol insurrection, Trumpism, Twitter, and neo-Nazis have in common? This book delves deep into conservative social media and far-right extremist platforms to understand the revival and proliferation of far-right authoritarian populist discourses after Trump’s ascent to power. After the January 6th Capitol insurrection and the role social media have played in normalizing and promoting far-right populist authoritarianism, there is a renewed interest to study digital discursive aggression. Inspired by Critical Theory, Panayota Gounari masterfully uses Critical Discourse Studies to analyze social media data and articulate a discursive, pedagogical and historical project.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gounari, Panayota

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Medienpädagogik, Mediendidaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Introduction

1 Far-Right Populist Authoritarianism

1 Far-Right Authoritarian Populism, Fascism, New Fascism, Trumpism

1 Introduction

2 A New Fascism?

3 Fascism, Neofascism, Far Right and Trumpism

4 Conclusion

2 One-Dimensional Discourse, Authoritarianism and Social Media: A Theoretical Framework

1 Introduction

2 What Is One-Dimensional Discourse?

3 Features of One-Dimensional Discourse

4 (Social) Media

5 From Mediatization to (Social) Mediatization

6 Conclusion

3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill: One-Dimensional Discursive Extremism and the Language of Digital Aggressiveness

1 Introduction

2 Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies (CDA/S) and the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA)

3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill

4 Trump’s Speech at the Ellipse-Save America Rally

5 One-Dimensional Discourse and The Language of Total Administration

6 Discursive Themes/Argumentative Constructions

7 Conclusion

4 Against Critical Pedagogy: For a Critical Pedagogy with a Radical Political Project

1 Introduction

2 Historical Roots and Main Concepts of Critical Pedagogy: Making the Pedagogical Political

3 Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Today?

4 Moving Forward

5 Emergency Time as a Pedagogical Project: Historical Thinking and Critical Consciousness

1 ‘Actions Committed in the Past’

2 Emergency Time: Unsettled Accounts with History

3 History: A Critical Public Pedagogy Project of Recontextualization

4 Making the Pedagogical Historical and the Historical Pedagogical

Appendix A: Trump’s Last Two Tweets on January 8th, 2021

Appendix B: Twitter Blog Post on the Permanent Suspension of Donald Trump’s Account, January 8th, 2021

Appendix C: Donald Trump Talking to Reporters after the Charlottesville Rally

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Panayota Gounari, Ph.D. (2004), Pennslylvania State University, is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has published extensively on authoritarian and neoliberal discourses and critical pedagogy. Her most recent book is Liberatory and Critical Education in Greece: Historical Trajectories and Perspectives (co-authored with G. Grollios; Gutenberg, 2016).