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Publication details [#60625]
Rasmussen, Joel. 2015. ‘Should each of us take over the role as watcher?’ Attitudes on Twitter towards the 2014 Norwegian terror alert. Journal of multicultural discourses 10 (2) : 197–213. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This paper explores Twitter attitudes in the wake of the July 2014 Norwegian terror alert. Based on discursive psychology, it offers new views on securitization as an argumentative process in social media. Twitter users appear to creatively employ social media as reaction to securitization, supporting attitudes about diverse themes: (1) the authorities’ notification and ways of rendering the terror alert; (2) the spread of liability to lay people for verifying unsound events and actors; and (3) the question of ethnicity and guilt.