By imparting crucial insights into the digital evolution of far-right
extremism and its challenges, this book explores how far-right
extremism has transformed, utilising digital spaces for communication
and employing coded language to evade detection. Far-right extremism
has spread extensively across online platforms. Flourishing within
echo chambers, these groups propagate different types of online and
offline actions and advance their hateful ideologies to a wide-ranging
audience. This book highlights the issues surrounding far-right
extremism, which distinguishing it from terrorism and examining its
contemporary digital manifestations. Importantly, it sheds light on
how far-right groups utilise online platforms for communication,
radicalisation, and on-ground actions, relying on alternative truths,
misinformation, conspiracy theories, fashion, and memes to connect
with like-minded individuals. The book also addresses content
moderation challenges and the impact of rising populism in today’s
political climate, which fuels societal divisions and uncertainty.
Far-Right Extremism Online is a valuable resource for academics,
students, analysts, and professionals working in counter-extremism,
cybersecurity, digital communication, and national security. It is
also an indispensable guide for those concerned about far-right
extremism in the digital age.
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Beyond the Fringe
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ISBN
9781040101230
Publisert
2024
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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