Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence - New Right Activism and Terrorism in the Attention Economy

Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence argues that we need a more fine-grained approach to understand contemporary far-right violence - an approach that takes language and cultural production in a digital economy seriously.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Ideology and activism in the digital age: theoretical and methodological reflections 2. The birth of metapolitics 2.0 3. The global new right and the algorithmic activism of Schild & Vrienden 4. Metapolitical influencers and far-right culture 5. Data voids, junk news and metapolitics 2.0 6. Metapolitical terrorism and digital media 7. The global new right: between mainstreaming and deplatformization 8. Metapolitics, algorithms and Violence Epilogue: Metapolitics, digital ethnography and democracy

About the author

Ico Maly is Associate Professor of Digital Media & Politics and coordinator of the Digital Culture Studies master track at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, editor-in-chief of Diggit Magazine and senior fellow at FRAN (Far-right Analysis Network).

Summary

Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence argues that we need a more fine-grained approach to understand contemporary far-right violence – an approach that takes language and cultural production in a digital economy seriously.

Product details

• Authors: Ico Maly, Ico (Tilburg University Maly
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781032254739
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225473-9
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Conspiracy Theories, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Fascism & Nazism, Terrorism, armed struggle, Far-right political ideologies and movements