and Its Nationalist Discourse in Practice

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Premise

„All acts of ethnic expressions can be explained in terms of lived experience, habitual practices that produce codes and inscribe meanings onto the body and psyche of the individual“ (Spencer 2006:102; my emphasis).

Strong Power to Internalize

The StatisticsWorldwide

Non-UserFacebook-User

Daily Use"Rest"Daily User

Reasons for Difference in the Usage of Facebook (besides Internet Accessability)

Hours spent each day world wide

“Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook”

> 320.833.

333

Provides a wide range of means to express identity , BUT at the same time an instrument of social control.

The Facebook Infrastructure

Main Feature: Creation of a Distinct Identity

Binary Opposition of Friends/Non-friend

Possibility of Active Participation

Connects World Wide

Visualization of Difference through Pictures?

Excursus:Should Facebook have a Box for Ethnicity/Race/Nation?

My First Application

Outcomes

Selection of Topic Relevant Activities

Posting nationalist symbols and linking them to your friends

Joining/attending groups (passive/active)

Inviting friends to the same groups

Posting links with nationalist content (for example homepages)

Adding applications involving nationalist discourse

Assumed Functions Showing the feelings

Sharing feelings

Being supported in the feelings by finding alikes

Channel to compete and thereby strengthen?

Proving to be a member

Advertisement of one‘s country

Get information

Habits and Rationality are indivisible

-> therefore Facebook has a great potential to form/create/frame an understanding of one’s identity

Different Ways to Express Your IdentityExample: Ireland Skin

Applications

How/Are you??? Based on Stereotypes

Knowledge about the Country

Language

Sometimes even too hard for „within socialized“

„How/Are you?“-Apps

„Turkish style“???

Fascism?

Subjects to a Closer Look-Groups

The Symbolism

S Group Images

-> Focus Groups Named „Best/Greatest Country…“ with Size > 80- - Most groups: Canada,

England, Australia, Lebanon

- - Biggest groups included: Canada, Australia and Egypt

- Out of 30-40; 11 replied- Even though the

percentage of females is low, 3 of them were girls

Who „leads“ the Nationalist Discourse?

Conclusion

Facebook’s expressions of nationalist discourse resemble real life symbols and rhetoric to a great extent. It has an enormous potential for shaping the discourse given its permeation, especially concerning the younger generation. Even though strong signs of “exclusivism” can be found, it provides even greater chances to connect.