‘Welcome to favelas, but in Italy’: urban precariousness, right-wing ideology and phatic nihilism on social media

Numerous social media projects have depicted grim scenes of urban life in big cities. By exploiting crime or garbage collection problems, for example, these pages have created pessimistic ways of perceiving the city and engaging citizens in search of memes or viral videos. This research invested in...

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Main Author: Levy, Helton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications 2024
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Online Access:https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/9952/1/Welcome-to-favelas_aam.pdf