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Mimicking News: How the credibility of an established tabloid is used when disseminating racism Cover

Mimicking News: How the credibility of an established tabloid is used when disseminating racism

Nordicom Review
Volume 41 (2020): Issue 1 (January 2020)
By: Johan Farkas and  Christina Neumayer  
Open Access
|Jan 2020

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Resemblance in visual layout, Ekstra Bladet (top) and The People’s Voice (bottom)Comment: Translation of headline: Diplomatic Crisis: Løkke [Prime Minister] to the Turks – stay awayComment: Translation of headline: Denmark is dissolving – Gangs of immigrants are taking over more and more areas
Resemblance in visual layout, Ekstra Bladet (top) and The People’s Voice (bottom)Comment: Translation of headline: Diplomatic Crisis: Løkke [Prime Minister] to the Turks – stay awayComment: Translation of headline: Denmark is dissolving – Gangs of immigrants are taking over more and more areas

Figure 2

Resemblance in visual layout for articles shared on Facebook, Ekstra Bladet (left) and The People’s Voice (right), differences highlightedComment: The image from The People’s Voice has been blurred. It derives from a criminal case in the UK (Topping, 2013).
Resemblance in visual layout for articles shared on Facebook, Ekstra Bladet (left) and The People’s Voice (right), differences highlightedComment: The image from The People’s Voice has been blurred. It derives from a criminal case in the UK (Topping, 2013).

Figure 3

Letter to the editor shared by Pia Kjærsgaard (MP, Danish People’s Party) and Martin Geertsen (MP, Liberal Party)
Letter to the editor shared by Pia Kjærsgaard (MP, Danish People’s Party) and Martin Geertsen (MP, Liberal Party)

Five most referenced sources (left), five most referenced types of sources (right)

Most referenced sources#Most referenced source types#
Wikipedia20Danish news articles69
Cultural Radicalism Destroys Denmark(CRDD, Danish anti-Islamic/nationalist-conservative blog)15Danish anti-Islamic/Danish anti-Islamic/nationalist-conservative blogs or websites33
Jyllands-Posten (Danish newspaper)14Foreign news articles23
Politiken (Danish newspaper)11Encyclopaedias20
The People’s Voice (Letters to the editor)10Foreign anti-Islamic/nationalist-conservative blogs or websites12

TPV letters to the editor most frequently shared on Facebook

HeadlineFacebook sharesAuthor, year
Research: Islam is the world’s most violent religion23,369Sennels, 2015 [1]
Alarming paragraph: Islam might be illegal according to Danish law14,736Sennels, 2015 [2]
Vandalism against asylum centre led to 18 months in prison – Immigrant assault led to 2 months8,104Frederiksen, 2015 [3]
Asylum director: The government has made Denmark more attractive to asylum seekers7,536Mogensen, 2015 [4]
Four more years with Thorning [Danish prime minister] will likely result in 128,000 additional Muslim immigrants4,239Mogensen, 2015 [5]
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2020-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2001-5119 | Journal ISSN: 1403-1108
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Language: English
Page range: 1 - 17
Published on: Jan 19, 2020
Published by: University of Gothenburg Nordicom
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
racism,
letters to the editor,
borderline discourse,
digital journalism,
fake news
Related subjects:
Social sciences,
Communication science,
Mass communication,
Public and political communication

© 2020 Johan Farkas, Christina Neumayer, published by University of Gothenburg Nordicom
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