Social Media and the Emergence, Establishment and Transformation of the Right-Wing Populist Finns Party
Social Media and the Emergence, Establishment and Transformation of the Right-Wing Populist Finns Party
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社交媒体与右翼民粹芬兰人党的出现、建立和转变
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2020
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Tuukka Ylä
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Tuukka Ylä
本文根据民粹主义与社交媒体关系的理论，对2007年至今社交媒体对芬兰人党及相关反移民运动的重要性进行了评估。这些因素包括人民中心主义，剥夺公民权，同质性，注意力经济，媒体精英主义和（缺乏）沟通资源。追踪芬兰反移民运动和芬兰人党的历史轨迹，我认为，芬兰的情况下是一个运动的一个例子，出生在网上，并利用社交媒体建立一个政治身份和战略性地获得通过党的影响力，最终改变它从内到外，而不是党的战略性地使用社交媒体的目的，有时假设在党为中心的文学。在承认政党仍然重要的同时，对当代民粹主义运动的研究必须考虑到公民在网络媒体的推动下的政治参与。
This paper assesses the significance of social media for the Finns Party and the related anti-immigration movement from 2007 to the present day, in light of theories on the relationship of populism and social media. These include people-centrism, disenfranchisement, homophily, the attention economy, media elitism, and (lack of) communicative resources. Tracing the historical trajectory of the Finnish anti-immigration movement and the Finns Party, I argue that the Finnish case is an example of a movement being born online and using social media to build a political identity and strategically gain influence through a party, eventually transforming it from the inside out—rather than the party strategically using social media for its purposes, as is sometimes assumed in party-centric literature. While acknowledging the continued importance of parties, research on contemporary populist movements must take into account the political engagement of citizens facilitated by online media.