Rise of the Far Right

This volume offers a timely, novel, and important contribution to current and emerging research on the nexus of the far right and digital technologies. -- Tanner Mirrlees, Assistant Professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Analysing recruitment tactics, this volume provides significant information on how far right actors and their supporters become engaged in extremist politics, and how their contributions to and consumption of media artefacts on these platforms alters and influences their views and actions. -- Peter Lentini, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Monash University

Melody Devries is a PhD Candidate in the Communication and Culture Department at Ryerson University, Canada. 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.

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 Reddits /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 Backlash Movement Networks, Andrey Kasimov 9. The Internet Hate Machine: On the Weird Collectivity of Anonymous Far-Right Groups, Sal Hagen and Marc Tuters 10. Gab as an Imitated Counterpublic, Greta Jasser Part IV: Assemblages and Assembled Tools From Theory to Resistance 11. Moments of Political Gameplay: Game Design as a Mobilization Tool for Far-Right Action, Noel Brett 12. Mobilized But Not (Yet) Recruited: The Case of the Collective Avatar, Melody Devries 13. Resisting the Far Right in Racial Capitalism: Sources, Possibilities and Limits, Tanner Mirrlees