TY - JOUR AU - Ylönen, Sabine PY - 2023/05/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Soziale Medien als fünfte Gewalt: Strategische Organisation deutscher und finnischer Gegenredekampagnen auf Facebook JF - Journal für Medienlinguistik JA - jfml VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Artikel DO - 10.21248/jfml.2023.47 UR - https://jfml.org/article/view/47 SP - 34-69 AB - <p>Social media, as the fifth estate, increasingly influence public dis­courses and play a major role in shaping public opinion. Undoubt­edly, they have the potential to promote participation and democra­cy. On the other side, they also constitute a risk for democratic soci­eties, as the spread of hate speech and fake news has shown. As a response, forms of counterspeech organised by civil society have emerged in social media to counter the normalisation of hate speech and democracy-threatening discourses. In order to influence dis­course in social media in terms of the fifth estate, counterspeech campaigns must be visible also quantitatively. In this ethnographic contrastive study, I analysed the activities of the German and Finn­ish Facebook groups of the network #iamhere international. The in­tensity and continuity of their activities is obviously influenced by their strategic organisation: conventionalised rules support them whereas lacking or inconsequent rules seemed to be counterpro­ductive.</p> ER -