Facebook and the Immigration Debate in Scandinavia
In this seminar, Ida Andersen will be discussing the role of Facebook as a public deliberation tool in the "refugee crisis" of 2015-2016.
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Ida Andersen
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen.
The immigration issue is considered to be a "Facebook-friendly" issue. It is viewed by active debaters as particularly well-suited for discussion on Facebook. But how is such a debate performed on this platform?
In this seminar, Ida Andersen, postdoctoral fellow at the department of Foreign Languages, UiB, will present findings from her study of Scandinavian Facebook debates about the "refugee crisis" in 2015-2016. Drawing on the concept of "principle of expression", she will show how the immigration debate on Facebook facilitates a display of opinions. Instead of providing a space for deliberative discussion, Facebook encourages personal attacks, moral positioning, and trench warfare.
Ida Andersen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Foreign Languages, UiB. She defended her PhD in 2020.
