Rise of the Far Right - Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2021
Editors:	Melody Devries • Judith Bessant • Rob Watts
Dimensions:	230 x 161 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-1-78661-492-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies
LSN:	1-78661-492-8
Barcode:	9781786614926

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