Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right
Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US
Contributor(s)
Fielitz, Maik (editor)
Thurston, Nick (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
How have digital tools and networks transformed the far rights strategies and transnational prospects? This volume presents a unique critical survey of the online and offline tactics, symbols and platforms that are strategically remixed by contemporary far-right groups in Europe and the US. It features thirteen accessible essays by an international range of expert scholars, policy advisors and activists who offer informed answers to a number of urgent practical and theoretical questions: How and why has the internet emboldened extreme nationalisms? What counter-cultural approaches should civil societies develop in response?How have digital tools and networks transformed the far rights strategies and transnational prospects? This volume presents a unique critical survey of the online and offline tactics, symbols and platforms that are strategically remixed by contemporary far-right groups in Europe and the US. It features thirteen accessible essays by an international range of expert scholars, policy advisors and activists who offer informed answers to a number of urgent practical and theoretical questions: How and why has the internet emboldened extreme nationalisms? What counter-cultural approaches should civil societies develop in response?
Keywords
Post-Digital; Far Right; Europe; Culture; Politics; Internet; Media; Right-wing Extremism; Digital Media; European Politics; Media Studies; Political ScienceDOI
10.14361/9783839446706ISBN
9783837646702Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, Germany, 2018Series
Edition Politik, 71Classification
Far-right political ideologies and movements