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The webinar as a tool for diasporic political communication to counter mis/disinformation about Syria
Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3).ORCID-id: 0000-0003-2682-035X
2023 (engelsk)Inngår i: Middle Eastern Diasporas and Political Communication / [ed] Ehab Galal, Mostafa Shehata, Claus Valling Pedersen, Routledge, 2023, s. 67-85Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
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Under the global pandemic, the webinar has become a popular tool of digital communication to reach global audiences. Aimed at shedding light on how misinformation affects diasporic political communication, this chapter investigates how Syrian pro-democracy activists and diasporic political entrepreneurs use the webinar to counter mis/disinformation and conspiracies about Syria. During the Covid-19 pandemic, alignment between conspiracy narratives on both the far right and the left became stronger, forming a so-called red-brownist alignment (Bevensee, 2020). These narratives include anti-vaccination arguments and mis/disinformation about Syria. In August 2020, a webinar series entitled Common Sense on Syria, by Just World Educational (JWE), provided a platform for communicating misinformation narratives about Syria, which Yassin al-Haj Saleh calls a ‘top-down anti-imperialist discourse’ (al-Haj Saleh, 2021). Syrian diaspora actors countered with another webinar series, The Syrian Revolution: A History from Below, to unpack the root causes and context of the Syrian revolution. Through the method of discourse analysis, with the webinar as unit of analysis, this chapter unpacks the discursive structures and narrative intentions of these two webinar series, which represent polar positions on the spectrum between conspiracy theories, mis/disinformation and fact-based opinions about Syria.

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Routledge, 2023. s. 67-85
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Routledge Studies on Middle Eastern Diasporas
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-64305DOI: 10.4324/9781003365419-5ISI: 001086507100005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85169405640ISBN: 9781003365419 (digital)ISBN: 9781032430294 (tryckt)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-64305DiVA, id: diva2:1818931
Tilgjengelig fra: 2023-12-12 Laget: 2023-12-12 Sist oppdatert: 2025-02-17bibliografisk kontrollert

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