Thematic Content Analysis of Right-Wing Radical Communities in Social Media
The content analysis covered the most popular posts published by right-wing radical communities in the VKontakte social network. The posts were selected according to the number of likes, reposts, and comments. The analysis revealed the topics that evoked the greatest response from supporters of righ...
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Kemerovo State University
2024-12-01
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| description | The content analysis covered the most popular posts published by right-wing radical communities in the VKontakte social network. The posts were selected according to the number of likes, reposts, and comments. The analysis revealed the topics that evoked the greatest response from supporters of right-wing radical ideology. The most popular content demonstrated the greatest contribution to cognitive radicalization. These messages featured either external enemy or our own, the latter describing the iconic image and behavior of right-wing supporters or expressing strong approval of certain actions of those outside the community. Other topics included ideology, events, actions, humor, positive assessment of politicians, etc. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-54bbae6bc9904ad19c911db187c68deb2025-08-20T02:00:12ZengKemerovo State UniversityВиртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети2782-47992782-48022024-12-013439540310.21603/2782-4799-2024-3-4-395-403Thematic Content Analysis of Right-Wing Radical Communities in Social MediaEvgeniy V. Shchekotin0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7377-0645Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information ScienceThe content analysis covered the most popular posts published by right-wing radical communities in the VKontakte social network. The posts were selected according to the number of likes, reposts, and comments. The analysis revealed the topics that evoked the greatest response from supporters of right-wing radical ideology. The most popular content demonstrated the greatest contribution to cognitive radicalization. These messages featured either external enemy or our own, the latter describing the iconic image and behavior of right-wing supporters or expressing strong approval of certain actions of those outside the community. Other topics included ideology, events, actions, humor, positive assessment of politicians, etc.political radicalismcognitive radicalizationright-wing radicalsthematic analysisdiscourse analysisvkontakte |
| spellingShingle | Evgeniy V. Shchekotin Thematic Content Analysis of Right-Wing Radical Communities in Social Media Виртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети political radicalism cognitive radicalization right-wing radicals thematic analysis discourse analysis vkontakte |
| title | Thematic Content Analysis of Right-Wing Radical Communities in Social Media |
| title_full | Thematic Content Analysis of Right-Wing Radical Communities in Social Media |
| title_fullStr | Thematic Content Analysis of Right-Wing Radical Communities in Social Media |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thematic Content Analysis of Right-Wing Radical Communities in Social Media |
| title_short | Thematic Content Analysis of Right-Wing Radical Communities in Social Media |
| title_sort | thematic content analysis of right wing radical communities in social media |
| topic | political radicalism cognitive radicalization right-wing radicals thematic analysis discourse analysis vkontakte |
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