In this article, we explore media use through the perspective of emotions. We specifically focus on a contested group of media users, namely those who engage in uncivil online behaviour and have had one or several comments deleted by moderators due to xenophobic and racist content. Our point of departure is that the informants represent a particularly engaged yet controversial audience. Based on theoretical perspectives on ‘hostile emotions’ like anger and fear and how the news media function as ‘emotional regimes’, we explore how the informants talk about their worldview and how it affects their media choices. We argue that political fear constitutes a powerful part of the informants’ narratives, which again influences their media use. Even though they are highly sceptical and suspicious, the participants in the study seek information from a wide selection of traditional and alternative sources where their worldview is both contested and confirmed. Furthermore, the strong fear expressed by informants constitute an important element of the anger they feel towards the established news media. This particular anger is structured around the notion of objective reporting that they consider highly provocative, both factually and emotionally, as it does not match how they experience the world around them.

在本文中，我们将从情感的角度探讨媒体的使用。我们特别关注一群有争议的媒体用户，即那些从事不文明在线行为并且由于仇外和种族主义的内容而被主持人删除了一个或几个评论的媒体用户。我们的出发点是，线人代表了一个特别参与但有争议的听众。基于对诸如“愤怒”和“恐惧”之类的“敌对情绪”的理论观点以及新闻媒体如何作为“情绪体系”发挥作用，我们探索了线人如何谈论他们的世界观，以及它如何影响他们的媒体选择。我们认为，政治恐惧是线人叙事的重要组成部分，这又影响了他们对媒体的使用。即使他们高度怀疑和怀疑，研究参与者从广泛的传统和另类资源中寻求信息，而他们的世界观受到了质疑和证实。此外，线人表达的强烈恐惧是他们对既定新闻媒体感到愤怒的重要因素。这种特殊的愤怒是围绕客观报道的概念而构建的，他们认为他们在事实和情感上都极具挑衅性，因为这与他们体验周围世界的方式不匹配。