Expressions of suppression online: a focus study on the Instagram account ‘Polisbrutalitet i orten’.
(2020) SOLM02 20201Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract
- In today’s modern society, communication online is used for several reasons where social media platforms take more space and time in the daily lifestyle of many. The photos sharing mobile application Instagram was created in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Since then it has steadily growing and is today owned by Facebook (Lagorio-Chafkin, 2012). In July 2018 it was reported that the network had more than 1 billion monthly active users worldwide and daily active users stood at 500 million (Clement 2019). This research is particularly looking at an account on Instagram called ‘Polisbrutalitet i orten’. It was created by three young women based in Gothenburg, Sweden who claim that the reason they created the account was to raise... (More)
- In today’s modern society, communication online is used for several reasons where social media platforms take more space and time in the daily lifestyle of many. The photos sharing mobile application Instagram was created in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Since then it has steadily growing and is today owned by Facebook (Lagorio-Chafkin, 2012). In July 2018 it was reported that the network had more than 1 billion monthly active users worldwide and daily active users stood at 500 million (Clement 2019). This research is particularly looking at an account on Instagram called ‘Polisbrutalitet i orten’. It was created by three young women based in Gothenburg, Sweden who claim that the reason they created the account was to raise anonymous stories sent to them which describe structural racism towards individuals living in the underprivileged areas in the country (Dau 2018). The stories are vividly describing the targeted group and/or individual to be innocent and approached by the police because of their appearance (Polisbrutalitet i orten, Instagram).
The aim of this research is to look closer at the published stories on the account ‘Polisbrutalitet i orten’ and analyse how the interactions in the commentary section is producing what is normatively accepted and not in relation to the published content on the account. The published stories express suppression and violence exerted primarily by police authority on young individuals. Through discourse analysis, the research examines the published posts as well as the comments written by the account followers online in order to see the interaction while applying Habermas’ theory of communicative action and Kozinets’ categorical terms within Netnography in order to answer the questions regarding inclusion vs exclusion in the studied online community, as well as the accepted norms. (Less)
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- Chadaré, Florence LU
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- SOLM02 20201
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- 2020
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- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
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- English
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abstract = {{In today’s modern society, communication online is used for several reasons where social media platforms take more space and time in the daily lifestyle of many. The photos sharing mobile application Instagram was created in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Since then it has steadily growing and is today owned by Facebook (Lagorio-Chafkin, 2012). In July 2018 it was reported that the network had more than 1 billion monthly active users worldwide and daily active users stood at 500 million (Clement 2019). This research is particularly looking at an account on Instagram called ‘Polisbrutalitet i orten’. It was created by three young women based in Gothenburg, Sweden who claim that the reason they created the account was to raise anonymous stories sent to them which describe structural racism towards individuals living in the underprivileged areas in the country (Dau 2018). The stories are vividly describing the targeted group and/or individual to be innocent and approached by the police because of their appearance (Polisbrutalitet i orten, Instagram).
The aim of this research is to look closer at the published stories on the account ‘Polisbrutalitet i orten’ and analyse how the interactions in the commentary section is producing what is normatively accepted and not in relation to the published content on the account. The published stories express suppression and violence exerted primarily by police authority on young individuals. Through discourse analysis, the research examines the published posts as well as the comments written by the account followers online in order to see the interaction while applying Habermas’ theory of communicative action and Kozinets’ categorical terms within Netnography in order to answer the questions regarding inclusion vs exclusion in the studied online community, as well as the accepted norms.}},
author = {{Chadaré, Florence}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Expressions of suppression online: a focus study on the Instagram account ‘Polisbrutalitet i orten’.}},
year = {{2020}},
}