TY  - UNPD
A1  - Massoc, Elsa
T1  - Fifty shades of hatred and discontent - varieties of anti-finance discourses on the European Twitter (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK)
T2  - SAFE working paper ; No. 338, LawFin Working Paper ; No. 30
N2  - Are we in a new “Polanyian moment”? If we are, it is essential to examine how “spontaneous” and punctual expressions of discontent at the individual level may give rise to collective discourses driving social and political change. It is also important to examine whether and how the framing of these discourses may vary across political economies. This paper contributes to this endeavor with the analysis of anti-finance discourses on Twitter in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK between 2019 and 2020. This paper presents three main findings. First, the analysis shows that, more than ten years after the financial crisis, finance is still a strong catalyzer of political discontent. Second, it shows that there are important variations in the dominant framing of public anti-finance discourses on social media across European political economies. If the antagonistic “us versus them” is prominent in all the cases, the identification of who “us” and “them” are, vary significantly. Third, it shows that the presence of far-right tropes in the critique of finance varies greatly from virtually inexistent to a solid minority of statements.
T3  - LawFin Working Paper - 30 
T3  - SAFE working paper - 338 
KW  - finance
KW  - social media
KW  - discourse analysis
KW  - opinion
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/64040
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-640403
UR  - https://ssrn.com/abstract=4008884
N1  - This research benefited from the support of the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE [grant number 123102] and was funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) – project FOR 2774.
IS  - Date of first version: 17 November 2021
PB  - SAFE
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -