Add to ORKGUntil the last few years, the vast majority of theorizing about the politicalimplications of online social networking capacities tended to assume thatnew communications media would empower progressive forces against theundemocratic tendencies in industrialized countries. However, the electionof Donald Trump, the electoral success of similar political movements in other capitalist democracies, and the rise to prominence of the so-called ‘alt-right’ in numerous online spaces constitute a development that requires re-examination of much of the common wisdom about social media and politics. This essay explores why earlier optimistic theory cannot explain why reactionary ideas have been so politically successful in the world of social media
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This thesis demonstrates how social media has affected political discourse. It builds on an analysis...
After President Trump’s election, BREXIT and the widespread rise of far-Right political parties, muc...
In the past twenty years, democratic participation through activism and civil disobedience has been ...
As the liberal fantasy of a stable ‘capitalist democracy’ has steadily disintegrated in the last few...
© John Benjamins Publishing Company. Much research has sought to map the spread of extreme and popul...
The rise of right-wing populism and neo-fascism worldwide is creating a dystopian reality for millio...
The growing overlap between three important phenomena—the increasingly widespread use of social medi...
Social media are often claimed to be an important new force in pol- itics. One way to investigate su...
This article conceptualises the role of audience agency in the performance of American conservative ...
The paper examines the intersection of technological design of Social Media communication, the notio...
Although populism is not a new phenomena, its rise in the aftermath of the financial crisis presents...
This chapter aims to direct attention to the political dimension of the social media age. ...
Since its inception, studies on ‘digital populism’ have focused mainly on the savviness of populist ...
A link between populism and social media is often suspected. This paper spells out a set of possible...
This article considers the link between the increasingly important role of automated information cur...
This thesis demonstrates how social media has affected political discourse. It builds on an analysis...
After President Trump’s election, BREXIT and the widespread rise of far-Right political parties, muc...
In the past twenty years, democratic participation through activism and civil disobedience has been ...