dc.contributor.author
Medeiros, Débora
dc.contributor.author
Makhashvili, Ana
dc.date.accessioned
2022-08-24T13:00:30Z
dc.date.available
2022-08-24T13:00:30Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/36010
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-35725
dc.description.abstract
Drawing on theories of affect, emotion, and new institutionalism, we analyze discourse around the right-wing terrorist attack in Hanau, Germany, to identify the different ways in which emotions and affect circulate on legacy media and Twitter and how they help establish varying emotional communities. Building upon an understanding of journalism as an affective institution, our article takes a close look at how journalism attempts to assert its role in public spheres not only by circulating information but also by providing emotional interpretations of events. Journalism’s emotional interpretations, however, do not remain unchallenged. With the emergence of the hybrid media system, users engage in various forms of interaction on social media platforms, forming “affective publics” by connecting through their affective reactions to current issues and events. In these interactions, distinct emotional communities may emerge, built around performative, political emotions. Our data comprises various news shows aired on the German public service broadcaster ARD as well as a dataset of tweets about #Hanau that were collected in the immediate aftermath of the attack. The results of our mixed-methods analysis reveal that different performances of grief played a central role both on TV news and on social media. On TV, grief was nationally connotated and aimed at uniting Germany’s population. On social media, it fueled anti-racist activism, as seen on the hashtag #SayTheirNames, honoring the victims of the attack.
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dc.format.extent
11 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
affective publics
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dc.subject
emotional communities
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dc.subject
far‐right terrorism
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new institutionalism
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social media
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social network analysis
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dc.subject.ddc
000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen::070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen
dc.title
United in Grief? Emotional Communities Around the Far‐Right Terrorist Attack in Hanau
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.17645/mac.v10i3.5438
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Media and Communication
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
3
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername
Cogitatio Press
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace
Lissabon
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
39
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
49
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
10
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i3.5438
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

refubium.note.author
Die Publikation wurde aus Open Access Publikationsgeldern der Freien Universität Berlin gefördert.
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
2183-2439