Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States

Patricia Anne Simpson is professor of German studies at Montana State University in Bozeman.Helga Druxes is professor of German at Williams College.

Simpson and Druxes’ edited collection provides a timely exploration of the role of digital media in political radicalism across Europe and North America. Drawing on an impressive array of rigorously researched studies, the volume considers not only Internet extremism, but the media strategies of contemporary far right parties and movements as well as how homophobia, racism, and radicalism are transmitted through a range of popular cultural forms. Avoiding the temptation to ascribe agency to the Internet itself, this book constitutes a rounded and nuanced contribution to the debate about how digital media is employed by the far right today.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United StatesPatricia Anne Simpson and Helga DruxesI. Extremisms and the InternetSwastikas in Cyberspace: How Hate Went OnlineChip Berlet and Carol MasonThe Lone Wolf Comes From Somewhere, TooØyvind Strømmen and Kjetil StormarkMobilizing on the Fringe: Domestic Extremists and Antisocial NetworkingKyle Christensen, Arian Spahiu, Bret Wilson, and Robert D. DuvalHijacking Academic Autonomy: Neo-Aryanism and Internet ExpertiseAlexandar MihailovicII. Far-Right Politics and Internet IdentitiesIdentity, Tradition, Sovereignty: The Transnational Linkages of Radical Nationalist Political Parties in the European UnionGlen M. E. DuerrManipulating the Media: The German New Right’s Virtual and Violent IdentitiesHelga DruxesThe Imitated Public Sphere: The Case of Hungary’s Far RightDomonkos SikRight-Wing Campaign Strategies in SwedenLara MazurskiThe Identitarian Movement: What Kind of Identity? Is it Really a Movement?Fabian VirchowIII. Homophobia, Race, and RadicalismSinging for Race and Nation: Fascism and Racism in Greek Youth MusicAlexandra Koronaiou, Evangelos Lagos, and Alexandros Sakellariou“The Order of the Vanquished Dragon”: The Performance of Archaistic Homophobia by the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers in Putin’s RussiaAlexandar MihailovicPure Hate: The Political Aesthetic of Prussian BluePatricia Anne SimpsonThe New “Great White Hope?” White Nationalist Discourses of Race, Color, and Country in the Career of Mexican Boxer Saúl “Canelo” ÁlvarezJustin D. GarcíaThe Roots of East German XenophobiaFreya KlierAbout the ContributorsIndex