Metapolitical New Right Influencers: The Case of Brittany Pettibone

Far-right movements, activists, and political parties are on the rise worldwide. Several scholars connect this rise of the far-right at least partially to the affordances of digital media and to a new digital metapolitical battle. A lot has been written about the far-right’s adoption of trolling, ha...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
الحاوية / القاعدة:Social Sciences
المؤلف الرئيسي: Ico Maly
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/9/7/113
الوصف
الملخص:Far-right movements, activists, and political parties are on the rise worldwide. Several scholars connect this rise of the far-right at least partially to the affordances of digital media and to a new digital metapolitical battle. A lot has been written about the far-right’s adoption of trolling, harassment, and meme-culture in their metapolitical strategy, but researchers have focused less on how far-right vloggers are using the practices of influencer culture for metapolitical goals. This paper tries to fill this gap and bring new theoretical insights based on a digital ethnographic case study. By analyzing political YouTuber and #pizzagate propagator Brittany Pettibone, this paper contributes to our understanding of radicalization processes in relation to the use of digital media.
تدمد:2076-0760