Abstract
How legitimacy is constructed and to whom it is awarded or denied is commonly bound to its social context. How, then, is legitimacy constructed in globally networked publics where contexts increasingly collapse? This study explores how the technological properties of networked publics influence how legitimacy is constructed. It proposes a framework that integrates the concept of context collapse into legitimacy theory and uses news and social media data to reconstruct legitimacy formation in a local cultural-religious conflict in Switzerland that received worldwide attention. The proposed theoretical framework offers an innovative theoretical lens on the globalization of local conflicts.
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