European University Institute Library

Digital media strategies of the far right in Europe and the United States, edited by Patricia Anne Simpson and Helga Druxes

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Digital media strategies of the far right in Europe and the United States

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edited by Patricia Anne Simpson and Helga Druxes

With the leverage of digital reproducibility, historical messages of hate are finding new recipients with breathtaking speed and scope. The rapid growth in popularity of right-wing extremist groups in response to transnational economic crises underscores the importance of examining in detail the language and political mobilization strategies of the New Right. In Europe, for example, populist right-wing activists organized around an anti-immigration agenda are becoming more vocal, providing pushback against the increase in migration flows from North Africa and Eastern Europe and countering support for integration with a categorical rejection of multiculturalism. In the United States, anti-immigration sentiment provides a rallying point for political and personal agendas that connect the rhetoric of borders with national, racial, and security issues. Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States is an effort to examine and understand these issues, informed by the conviction that an interdisciplinary and transnational approach can allow productive comparison of far-right propaganda strategies in Europe and the United States. With a special emphasis on performing ideology in the far-right music scene, on violent anti-immigrant stances, and on the far right’s skillful creation and manipulation of virtual communities, the contributions foreground the cultural shibboleths that are exchanged among far-right supporters on the Internet, which serve to generate a sense of group belonging and the illusion of power far greater that the known numbers of neo-Nazis in any one country might suggest. Moreover, with attention to transatlantic right-wing movements and their use of particularly digital media, the essays in this volume put pressure on the similarities among the various national agents, while accommodating differences in the virtual and sometimes violent identities created and nurtured online. --, Provided by publisher

Introduction : digital media strategies of the far right in Europe and the United States / Patricia Anne Simpson and Helga Druxes -- Swastikas in cyberspace : how hate went online / Chip Berlet and Carol Mason -- The lone wolf comes from somewhere, too / Øyvind Strømmen and Kjetil Stormark -- Mobilizing on the fringe : domestic extremists and antisocial networking / Kyle Christensen, Arian Spahiu, Bret Wilson, and Robert D. Duval -- Hijacking academic autonomy : neo-aryanism and internet expertise / Alexandar Mihailovic -- Identity, tradition, sovereignty : the transnational linkages of radical nationalist political parties in the European Union / Glen M.E. Duerr -- Manipulating the media : the German new right's virtual and violent identities / Helga Druxes -- The imitated public sphere : the case of Hungary's far right / Domonkos Sik -- Right-wing campaign strategies in Sweden / Lara Mazurski -- The identitarian movement : what kind of identity? : is it really a movement? / Fabian Virchow -- Singing for race and nation : fascism and racism in Greek youth music / Alexandra Koronaiou, Evangelos Lagos, and Alexandros Sakellariou -- "The order of the vanquished dragon" : the performance of archaistic homophobia by the union of orthodox banner bearers in Putin's Russia / Alexandar Mihailovic -- Pure hate : the political aesthetic of Prussian blue / Patricia Anne Simpson -- The new "great white hope?" : white nationalist discourses of race, color, and country in the career of Mexican boxer Saúl "Canelo" Álvarez / Justin D. García -- The roots of East German xenophobia / Freya Klier