Book Review: Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain (Extremism and Democracy)
In: Sociological research online, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 199-200
ISSN: 1360-7804
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In: Sociological research online, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 199-200
ISSN: 1360-7804
In: New media & society: an international and interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change, Band 25, Heft 7, S. 1728-1745
ISSN: 1461-7315
With large social media platforms coming under increasing pressure to deplatform far-right users, the Alternative Technology movement (Alt-Tech) emerged as a new digital support infrastructure for the far right. We conduct a qualitative analysis of the prominent Alt-Tech platform Gab, a social networking service primarily modelled on Twitter, to assess the far-right virtual community on the platform. We find Gab's technological affordances – including its lack of content moderation, culture of anonymity, microblogging architecture and funding model – have fostered an ideologically eclectic far-right community united by fears of persecution at the hands of 'Big Tech'. We argue that this points to the emergence of a novel techno-social victimology as an axis of far-right virtual community, wherein shared experiences or fears of being deplatformed facilitate a coalescing of assorted far-right tendencies online.