Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US

• Other Authors: Fielitz, Maik (Editor), Thurston, Nick (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2018
• Series: Edition Politik
• Subjects: Fascism & Nazism; Post-Digital; Far Right; Europe; Culture; Politics; Internet; Media; Right-wing Extremism; Digital Media; European Politics; Media Studies; Political Science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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?