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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
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Edited by Melody Devries; Judith Bessant and Rob Watts
Summary
This edited collection offers readers a practical focus on how media technologies are involved in recruitment and mobilization processes of far-right groups.
