Joined December 2009
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#ecprgc24 10 more days to submit proposals for the @ECPR @ecpr_ed section on radicalism, extremism and populism! @AnitaNissen and I welcome a broad variety of work on far-right & far-left politics, actors & discourses, parties & movements, etc. ecpr.eu/Events/Event/Section…
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🗣️ Deadline fast approaching for the 4th @ECPR Summer School on ‘Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’! The event, sponsored by @CrexUiO, features keynotes by @SLdeLange & Michael Minkenberg. Apply now! ecpr.eu/Events/261 @PietroCastelliG @ecpr_ed
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Politics of Deliberate Inaction: The disconnect between platform justifications and user imaginaries on content moderation in a ‘free speech’ online forum. buff.ly/3qK31L9

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The article identifies a discrepancy between how Flashback justifies minimal moderation and how users had imagined the platform operating.
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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.
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Refugees versus ‘refugees’: the role of Islamophobia in Swedish alternative media’s reporting on Ukrainian asylum seekers. buff.ly/3oYhFxH

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In this new #OnlineFirst article, Amanda Palmgren, Mathilda Åkerlund, and Lisen Viklund analyse how immigrants are understood by Swedish alternative media and the role that #Islamophobia plays, if at all, in these representations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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I have a new paper out! In it, we explore alt. news' reporting on Ukrainian refugees. 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: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.… @digsum @MCSjournal
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I am grateful to the two reviewers for their insightful comments on my paper
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...in ways that highly resembled those of the European far right. Such framing helps the international far right form a coherent narrative and all-applicable template for the problems of Muslims facing the Western world.
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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.
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