{"id":22632,"date":"2012-04-23T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22632"},"modified":"2012-04-23T20:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:03:00","slug":"obama-as-anti-american-visual-folklore-in-right-wing-forwarded-e-mails-and-construction-of-conservative-social-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22632","title":{"rendered":"Obama as Anti-American: Visual Folklore in Right-Wing Forwarded E-mails and Construction of Conservative Social Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/jaf.2012.0018\" target=\"_blank\">Obama as Anti-American: Visual Folklore in Right-Wing Forwarded E-mails and Construction of Conservative Social Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_american_folklore\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of American Folklore<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_american_folklore\/toc\/jaf.125.496.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 125, Number 496<\/a>, Spring 2012<br \/>\npages 177-203<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/jaf.2012.0018\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/jaf.2012.0018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/journalism.missouri.edu\/staff\/margaret-duffy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Duffy<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Journalism<br \/>\n<em>University of Missouri<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gspm.gwu.edu\/janis-teruggi-page-phd\" target=\"_blank\">Janis Teruggi Page<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>George Washington University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rachel Young<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Missouri School of Journalism<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper investigates the group-building potential of forwarded e-mails through a visual analysis of negative images about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a>. We argue that these e-mails are a form of political digital folklore that may contribute to constructing participants\u2019 individual and group identities. Images amplify the impact and believability of the messages, especially when linked to familiar cultural references and experiences and may lead to increased political polarization and hostility.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_american_folklore\/v125\/125.496.duffy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama as Anti-American: Visual Folklore in Right-Wing Forwarded E-mails and Construction of Conservative Social Identity Journal of American Folklore Volume 125, Number 496, Spring 2012 pages 177-203 DOI: 10.1353\/jaf.2012.0018 Margaret Duffy, Associate Professor of Journalism University of Missouri Janis Teruggi Page George Washington University Rachel Young Missouri School of Journalism This paper investigates the group-building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,6,394,20],"tags":[10506,10505,10504,10503,10507],"class_list":["post-22632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-janis-page","tag-janis-t-page","tag-janis-teruggi-page","tag-margaret-duffy","tag-rachel-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}