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Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States compiles a variety of perspectives on the ways right-wing activists and extremists are using popular media to advance their political-sometimes violent-agendas.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States
Patricia Anne Simpson and Helga Druxes
I. Extremisms and the Internet
Swastikas in Cyberspace: How Hate Went Online
Chip Berlet and Carol Mason
The Lone Wolf Comes From Somewhere, TooØyvind Strømmen and Kjetil Stormark
Mobilizing on the Fringe: Domestic Extremists and Antisocial Networking
Kyle Christensen, Arian Spahiu, Bret Wilson, and Robert D. Duval
Hijacking Academic Autonomy: Neo-Aryanism and Internet Expertise
Alexandar Mihailovic
II. Far-Right Politics and Internet Identities
Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty: The Transnational Linkages of Radical Nationalist Political Parties in the European Union
Glen M. E. Duerr
Manipulating the Media: The German New Right's Virtual and Violent Identities
Helga Druxes
The Imitated Public Sphere: The Case of Hungary's Far Right
Domonkos Sik
Right-Wing Campaign Strategies in Sweden
Lara Mazurski
The Identitarian Movement: What Kind of Identity? Is it Really a Movement?
Fabian Virchow
III. Homophobia, Race, and Radicalism
Singing for Race and Nation: Fascism and Racism in Greek Youth Music
Alexandra Koronaiou, Evangelos Lagos, and Alexandros Sakellariou
"The Order of the Vanquished Dragon": The Performance of Archaistic Homophobia by the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers in Putin's Russia
Alexandar Mihailovic
Pure Hate: The Political Aesthetic of Prussian Blue
Patricia Anne Simpson
The New "Great White Hope?" White Nationalist Discourses of Race, Color, and Country in the Career of Mexican Boxer Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez
Justin D. García
The Roots of East German Xenophobia
Freya Klier
About the Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Patricia Anne Simpson and Helga Druxes - Contributions by Chip Berlet; Kyle Christensen; Glen Duerr; Robert D. Duval; Justin D. Garcia; Freya Klier; Alexandra Koronaiou; Evangelos Lagos; Carol Mason; Lara Mazurski; Alexandar Mihailovic; Alexandr
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Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States compiles a variety of perspectives on the ways right-wing activists and extremists are using popular media to advance their political—sometimes violent—agendas.
