Overview

Explore the revival of far-right movements and parties over the past few decades in varying liberal-democracies, including the United States, Canada and Australia, Hungary, Poland and Taiwan. After decades on the social and political margins, far-right groups and movements in 2019 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, Canada and Australia to Germany, Poland 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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Author:   Melody Devries ,  Judith Bessant ,  Rob Watts
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.653kg
ISBN:  

9781786614926

ISBN 10:   1786614928
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   29 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Uncanny Political Work of Technologies, Melody Devries, Judith Bessant, & Rob Watts Part I: Electoral and Institutional Resurgence: Campaigns and Wins 2. Far-Right Recruitment and Mobilization on Facebook: The Case of Australia, Jordan McSwiney 3. Populist Myths and Ethno-Nationalist Fears in Hungary, Simon Bradford & Fin Cullen 4. Multi-Platform Social Capital Mobilization Strategies among Anti-LGBTQIA+ Groups in Taiwan, Kenneth C.C. Yang & Yowei Kang Part II: Social Network, Social Movement and the Gendered Far-Right 5. Twitter as a Channel for Frame Diffusion: Hashtag Activism and the Virality of #HeterosexualPrideDay, J.P. Armstrong 6. The Online Manosphere and Misogyny in the Far-Right: The Case of the #thotaudit, Simon Copland 7. “A Positive Identity for Men”: Pathways to far-right participation through Reddit’s /r/MensRights and /r/TheRedPill, Luc S. Cousineau Part III: Platforms and Alt-Tech Collectivity 8. Soldiers of 4chan: The Role of Anonymous Online Spaces in Backlash Movement Networks, Andrey Kasimov 9. The Internet Hate Machine: On the Weird Collectivity of Anonymous Far-Right Groups, Sal Hagen and Marc Tuters 10. Gab as an Imitated Counterpublic, Greta Jasser Part IV: Assemblages and Assembled Tools – From Theory to Resistance 11. Moments of Political Gameplay: Game Design as a Mobilization Tool for Far-Right Action, Noel Brett 12. Mobilized But Not (Yet) Recruited: The Case of the Collective Avatar, Melody Devries 13. “Resisting” the Far Right in Racial Capitalism: Sources, Possibilities and Limits, Tanner Mirrlees

Reviews

"Analysing recruitment tactics, this volume provides significant information on how far right actors and their supporters become engaged in extremist politics, and how their contributions to and consumption of media artefacts on these platforms alters and influences their views and actions. --Peter Lentini, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Monash University This volume offers a timely, novel, and important contribution to current and emerging research on the nexus of the far right and digital technologies. --Tanner Mirrlees, Assistant Professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Unraveling the connection between the radical right and technology is awkward, messy and dirty work, but work that the scientific community simply has to do, because its duty is to approach and explain existing social trends and events. At the same time, there is no intellectual sword with which one could cut the tangled knot of technology and the radical right - we need many a hands and eyes that will carefully, devotedly and meticulously untangle part by part the complex (internet) network, so that we can understand the fusion of technology and the contemporary digital radical right. If such a need is ignored and the process of analyzing the connection between technology and the contemporary radical right does not start, there is no doubt that the radical right will continue to further develop its use of digital technology - we will never be able to penetrate to the core of that relationship. At the same time, the authors of this book, in trying to expose this connection, had to come into contact with a multitude of invasive radical right-wing thoughts and content, leaving themselves exposed to the danger of experiencing permanent negative consequences for their political perception and worldview. Therefore, we must not allow their noble sacrifice to be in vain. -- ""The Croatian Book Review"""

Analysing recruitment tactics, this volume provides significant information on how far right actors and their supporters become engaged in extremist politics, and how their contributions to and consumption of media artefacts on these platforms alters and influences their views and actions.--Peter Lentini, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Monash University This volume offers a timely, novel, and important contribution to current and emerging research on the nexus of the far right and digital technologies.--Tanner Mirrlees, Assistant Professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Author Information

Judith Bessant is professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and an adjunct professor at the School of Justice, QUT, Australia. Rob Watts is professor of social policy at RMIT University, Melbourne. Melody Devries is doctoral graduate in communication & culture department at Ryerson University,.

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