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Rise of the Far Right

Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization
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Explore the revival of far-right movements and parties over the past few decades in varying liberal-democracies, including the United States, Canada and Australia, Hungary, Poland and Taiwan. After decades on the social and political margins, far-right groups and movements in 2019 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, Canada and Australia to Germany, Poland 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.

Author Biography:

Judith Bessant is professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia and an adjunct professor at the School of Justice, QUT, Australia. Rob Watts is professor of social policy at RMIT University, Melbourne. Melody Devries is doctoral graduate in communication & culture department at Ryerson University,.
Release date Australia
July 29th, 2021
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Judith Bessant
  • Edited by Melody Devries
  • Edited by Rob Watts
Pages
300
Dimensions
161x230x26
ISBN-13
9781786614926
Product ID
34679054

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