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After decades on the social and political margins, far-right groups and movements are enjoying increasing success, and even claiming a place in mainstream electoral politics in many Western political systems.
Research shows that new media like Twitter, YouTube, and community sites likes 4chan and Reddit are increasingly involved with the mobilization of popular support for far-right electoral campaigns, and even organized political violence. These technologies – including other social media, discussion websites, certain online games, chat servers, talk radio, cable news, and print media – are making contemporary far-right ideologies possible in diverse ways, altering methods of recruitment to the extent that they become unrecognizable from far-right movements of the past, and thus, more dangerous.
The results of these new technological processes can be seen in the increasing normalization of far-right values within mainstream culture, politics, and media ecosystems within countries from the United States, Britain, Australia, Germany, and Hungary.
This book brings together recent academic research exploring how far-right groups use new media to recruit followers to extremist beliefs and mobilize political action. In doing so, the book reveals the complex ways that evolving technologies are used both purposively, subtly, and in some cases incidentally, to recruit and mobilize far-right support.

Table 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

Product details

Published Mar 11 2022
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 292
ISBN 9781538158906
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 58 b/w illustrations;4 tables;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Melody Devries

Anthology Editor

Judith Bessant

Anthology Editor

Rob Watts

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