ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an analysis of social media communication during nationalist and anti-fascist protests in Germany. It seeks to understand how the antagonistic relationship between fascist and anti-fascist movements is expressed in social media. The chapter outlines the case, introduces an analytical framework, highlights similarities between the social media tactics of the two oppositional political positions, and argues that these similarities are important for understanding the antagonism of nationalist and anti-fascist activists in social media. The dominators can be summarised as the antagonistic other, authority and the state, and the mainstream media. The mainstream media discourse described use of Twitter in a playful, humorous, and performative manner, excluding actual political statements, which is counterproductive to the activists' aim of producing publicity for a political cause: "February 19 on Twitter: Discontent, a little bit of international standing and Justin Bieber".
