mathilda åkerlund

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#internetresearch postdoc in #digitalsociology at Umeå University, Sweden. I research different aspects of the #farright #online through #computational and #qualitative #methods. I am a board member at #DIGSUM and senior editor at #JDSR. Located in #Gothenburg
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Contact infohttps://www.umu.se/en/staff/mathilda-akerlund/
JDSRhttps://www.jdsr.io/
DIGSUMhttps://www.digsum.org/
mathilda åkerlundSep 24, 2023
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Show threadmathilda åkerlundAug 22, 2023
The article identifies a discrepancy between how #Flashback justifies minimal #moderation and how users had imagined the platform operating. It also discusses how Flashback maintains these #policies through its #community’s active encouragement via supportive posting and silencing of non-conformers, and the consequences that Flashback’s inaction has in terms of residual #hate.
mathilda åkerlundAug 22, 2023
I have a new #paper out in #NewMediaandSociety:
"#Politics of Deliberate Inaction: The disconnect between platform justifications and user imaginaries on #contentmoderation in a ‘free speech’ online forum" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448231190905
I analyse the online forum #Flashback which avoids #moderation and forbids users from deleting their #content or #account. I discuss both the position(s) taken by Flashback as it pertains to its policy of minimal moderation, and the expectations expressed by its users.
mathilda åkerlundJun 8, 2023
I have a new #research out! In it, we explore alt. news' reporting on Ukrainian refugees. We saw that they were positively contrasted to #Muslims through arguments of alleged differences in culture and geographical origin, perceived legitimacy as asylum seekers, and in terms of gratitude We found that rather than being a threat, #Islamophobic comparisons to Muslims were used to frame Ukrainian refugees as part of a #white in-group. @digsum check it out here:
https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231179363
Show threadmathilda åkerlundMay 24, 2023
The texts scaremonger about Muslims. The paper discusses how such framing helps the international far right form a coherent narrative and all-applicable template for the problems of 'Muslims' facing the West. Finally, the analysis showed how Sweden is positioned in a complex juxtaposition: as something both good and bad; superior while also inferior; a great #nationalist role model but also a warning example, and how Swedish #whiteness plays a central role in these depictions.
Show threadmathilda åkerlundMay 24, 2023
It focused specifically on when Sweden is discussed by the US far right and in relation to what events, and what values and associations are attributed to Sweden. The analysis showed that news events were not reported on by US far-right organisations as they took place in Sweden but instead appropriated and accentuated when they could be used to make certain points directed at the audiences of these organisations.
mathilda åkerlundMay 24, 2023
New paper out now in JEMS: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2208293
In it, I explore how Sweden has come to be imagined and represented on the websites of US far right organisations since the start of the so-called ‘migration crisis’ of 2015.
#farright #internet #digitalsociology #digsum #sweden #research
mathilda åkerlundDec 7, 2022
Karen GregoryNov 8, 2022
I'm organising a "regular paper session" on #digitalsociology for the American Sociological Association annual meeting in 2023. Submission portal is now open: https://www.asanet.org/
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mathilda åkerlundDec 7, 2022
S.E.MacRaeNov 8, 2022
I never properly introduced myself on here- so here goes. I am researching various aspects of the interaction between #policy, #education, #media, and #politics from a #digitalsociology perspective. I am also interested in #digitalidentity in relation to #professionalidentity following on from my PhD on the #digitalmediation of #womens #sexualidentity
mathilda åkerlundNov 24, 2022
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