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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 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
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.
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.
