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Rise of the Far Right
Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization
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2021
Summary
After decades on the social and political margins, far-right groups and movements are enjoying increasing success, and even claiming a place in mainstream electoral politics in many Western political systems.
Research shows that new media like Twitter, YouTube, and community sites likes 4chan and Reddit are increasingly involved with the mobilization of popular support for far-right electoral campaigns, and even organized political violence. These technologies – including other social media, discussion websites, certain online games, chat servers, talk radio, cable news, and print media – are making contemporary far-right ideologies possible in diverse ways, altering methods of recruitment to the extent that they become unrecognizable from far-right movements of the past, and thus, more dangerous.
The results of these new technological processes can be seen in the increasing normalization of far-right values within mainstream culture, politics, and media ecosystems within countries from the United States, Britain, Australia, Germany, and Hungary.
This book brings together recent academic research exploring how far-right groups use new media to recruit followers to extremist beliefs and mobilize political action. In doing so, the book reveals the complex ways that evolving technologies are used both purposively, subtly, and in some cases incidentally, to recruit and mobilize far-right support.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-78661-492-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-78661-493-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
287
Product type
Edited Book
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1 The Uncanny Political Involvement of Technologies No access Pages 1 - 20
2 Far-Right Recruitment and Mobilization on Facebook: The Case of Australia No access
3 Populist Myths and Ethno-Nationalist Fears in Hungary No access
4 Multi-Platform Social Capital Mobilization Strategies among Anti-LGBTQIA+ Groups in Taiwan No access
5 Twitter as a Channel for Frame Diffusion? Hashtag Activism and the Virality of #HeterosexualPrideDay No access
6 The Online Manosphere and Misogyny in the Far Right: The Case of the #thotaudit No access
7 ‘A Positive Identity for Men’?: Pathways to Far-Right Participation through Reddit’s /r/MensRights and /r/TheRedPill No access
8 Soldiers of 4chan: The Role of Anonymous Online Spaces in Backlash Movement Networks No access
9 The Internet Hate Machine: On the Weird Collectivity of Anonymous Far-Right Groups No access
10 Gab as an Imitated Counterpublic No access
11 Moments of Political Gameplay: Game Design as a Mobilization Tool for Far-Right Action No access
12 Mobilized but Not (Yet) Recruited: The Case of the Collective Avatar No access
13 ‘Resisting’ the Far Right in Racial Capitalism: Sources, Possibilities and Limits No access
