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

Panayota Gounari

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Pages:: 66–99

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004510470_004

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Abstract

Throughout his presidential campaign and four years in office, Trump’s rhetoric helped fuse the various factions of the far right as the latter gained in power and visibility thanks to the political cover provided by the White House. Starting with the question posed in Chapter 1 regarding the rise of far-right extremism and neo-fascism and drawing on Critical Discourse Studies and the one-dimensional authoritarian discourse framework presented in Chapter 2, this chapter explores how conservative social media have been used as a platform for far-right discourses, the features of these discourses and the kinds of social practices that are shaped and mobilized by them. The analysis builds on four different discursive moments: Trump’s speech at the Ellipse, Parler and Telegram digital chatter and select Twitter posts in the time period between December 31st, 2020 and January 12th, 2021; neo-Nazi Iron March Platform posts; and the actual events at the Capitol. The exploration and critical analysis of the discursive manifestations of far-right authoritarian populism and Nazism on social media reveals how in their obscurity and anonymity, deeply dehumanizing ideologies are becoming normalized. The vehicle is usually a language of aggressiveness that annihilates and dehumanizes the other. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, argumentation strategies, topoi and discursive themes in the social media under review are presented.

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From Twitter to Capitol Hill

Far-Right Authoritarian Populist Discourses, Social Media and Critical Pedagogy

Series: Critical Media Literacies Series, Volume: 10

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004510470

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 02 Dec 2021

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Preface

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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

Chapter 2 One-Dimensional Discourse, Authoritarianism and Social Media

Chapter 3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill

Chapter 4 Against Critical Pedagogy

Chapter 5 Emergency Time as a Pedagogical Project

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

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

Donald Trump Talking to Reporters after the Charlottesville Rally

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One-Dimensional Discursive Extremism and the Language of Digital Aggressiveness

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