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This edited collection offers readers a practical focus on how media technologies are involved in recruitment and mobilization processes of far-right groups.

List of contents

1. Introduction: The Uncanny Political Work of Technologies, Melody Devries, Judith Bessant, and 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 and Fin Cullen
4. Multi-Platform Social Capital Mobilization Strategies among Anti-LGBTQIA+ Groups in Taiwan, Kenneth C.C. Yang and 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, JP 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

About the author

Melody Devries is a PhD Candidate in the Communication and Culture Department at Ryerson University, Canada. Judith Bessant is Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Justice, QUT, Australia.Judith Bessant is a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and a Professor at RMIT University, Australia.Rob Watts is Professor of Social Policy at RMIT University, Melbourne.

Summary

This edited collection offers readers a practical focus on how media technologies are involved in recruitment and mobilization processes of far-right groups.

Product details

• Assisted by: Judith Bessant (Editor), Bessant Judith (Editor), Melody Devries (Editor), Rob Watts (Editor), Watts Rob (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781786614926
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-492-6
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies and movements, Centrist democratic ideologies and movements