Clip the blue bird: Discursive strategies of Hindutva digital mobilization against Twitter in India
研究印度右翼群体如何利用去殖民化、民主治理等看似左翼的论调,在替代平台Koo上动员反对全球科技公司(尤其是推特)的话语策略。
Though early research suggested that right-leaning groups were a radicalized monolith, recent shifts in research are producing far more nuanced accounts. Our article contributes to this effort by spotlighting novel discursive strategies of right-leaning groups in India that leverage decolonization rhetoric, democratic governance, and other seemingly left-leaning rationales to mobilize right-wing groups against global technology companies, especially Twitter (now X).Footnote1 We collected and analyzed publicly accessible data from Koo—an alternative social networking platform populated with discourses of India’s ideological right. We then used critical discourse analysis to identify the discursive strategies of right-leaning users on Koo deployed to challenge the power of global technology companies – calls for data localization, veiled suppression, and paternalism and responsibility.