Communicating Hate on YouTube: The Macedonian Identity in Focus

Minos Athanasios Karyotakis

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76485-2_8

Communicating Hate on YouTube: The Macedonian Identity in Focus

Minos Athanasios Karyotakis

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This chapter explores the dominant narratives of the two conflicting sides—Greeks and Macedonians—on YouTube to reveal how these narratives promote a certain knowledge that shapes the Macedonian identity. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was used to identify the users’ ideological constructions, hatred as an argument, Christianity as part of Macedonian identity, and the economic fight as discourses in more than 3500 comments on 76 YouTube videos related to Macedonian Name Dispute (MND). MND is an essential part of the Macedonian Question that has challenged the borders of various Balkan countries; so the findings highlight the power of nationalistic narratives and shed light on the constant use of hate opinions as comments on YouTube.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Discourse and Conflict
Subtitle of host publication	Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-Building
Editors	Innocent Chiluwa
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	203-226
Number of pages	24
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030764852
ISBN (Print)	9783030764845, 9783030764876
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76485-2_8
Publication status	Published - 23 Sept 2021

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Nationalism
Prespes Agreement
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