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Session
462: AT THE FOREFRONT OF DIGITAL REVOLUTION: INTERRELATIONS OF TECH, WHITENESS, AND THE FAR RIGHT
Time:
Friday, 20/Oct/2023:
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Location: Wyeth C

Sonesta Hotel

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AT THE FOREFRONT OF DIGITAL REVOLUTION: INTERRELATIONS OF TECH, WHITENESS, AND THE FAR RIGHT

Mathlida Åkerlund1, Ralph Schroeder2, Bharath Ganesh3, Jessie Daniels4, Eviane Leidig5

1Centre for Digital Social Research (DIGSUM), Umeå University, Sweden; 2Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, UK; 3Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; 4Department of Sociology, Hunter College, USA; 5Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University,The Netherlands

Digital technology has played a crucial role in democratisation, enabling the propagation of progressive ideas, voices, and movements. However, the internet is also a space in which reactionary political expressions, like those of the far-right, have come to thrive. Part of the digital success of the contemporary far-right can be attributed to the structure of the internet itself, which effectively links global, heterogenous far-right actors, and provides them with a sense of community across various social and geographical settings. The papers in this panel address different aspects of far-right efforts across Big Tech and alt-right platforms. The first and second papers both speak to this issue, although in different ways, by illustrating how the US far-right leverages imaginaries of Sweden, in both legacy and alternative media outlets, to build transnational alliances. The third paper studies how users of a notorious global white nationalist web forum develop a collective white identity that has been described as a network of translocal whiteness. The fourth and fifth papers, in turn, through different focuses, address the role that tech companies play in responding to, and at times perpetuate, far-right content, as well as responses from civil society to counter this threat.



 
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