On Commemorating Hrant Dink: Affective Nationalism, Hate Speech, and Digital News Media Users

This article focuses on the digital reproduction of hate speech. It investigates the normalization of affective nationalistic discourses via user comments posted on digital news media websites. I analyze digital posts concerning the murder in Turkey of Hrant Dink, a well-known Turkish Armenian journ...

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