Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism

Hall identifies the critical conjuncture between Brexit and Facebook that enabled transnational right-wing populism to engage a new audience. White and Right victimhood motivated individuals to use Facebook as a means of harnessing a sense of political control around Brexit.

List of contents

Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Facebook, the EU Referendum, and Its Populist Aftermath
Section I: Experiences
Chapter 1: Becoming Engaged in Brexit and Right-Wing Populist Politics on Facebook
Chapter 2: Meaningful Online Engagement Practices in the Pro-Brexit Facebook Milieu
Section II: Ideology
Chapter 3: The Pro-Brexit Facebook Metanarrative
Chapter 4: Racisms and White Victimhood in Pro-Brexit Engagement on Facebook
Chapter 5: Anti-Leftism and Right Victimhood in Pro-Brexit Engagement on Facebook
Section III: Knowledge
Chapter 6: Brexit, Facebook, and Epistemic Battlegrounds
Conclusion: Taking Back Control?
References
Appendix
About the Author

About the author

Natalie-Anne Hall is postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Communication and Media, Loughborough University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Natalie-Anne Hall
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2023
• EAN: 9781666914719
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-471-9
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Discourse, Power and Society
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Communication Studies