TY  - BOOK
AU  - Törnberg,Anton
AU  - Törnberg,Petter
TI  - Intimate communities of hate: why social media fuels far-right extremism 
T2  - Routledge studies in political sociology
SN  - 9781003108344
U1  - 302.23/1 23/eng/20240213
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Social media
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Radicalization
KW  - Right-wing extremists
KW  - Radicalism in mass media
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
N1  - Introduction -- Situating Stormfront in Social Media Debates -- A More Social Theory of Online Politics -- Methodology, Data, and Ethics -- Introducing Stormfront -- Identity: Becoming a Community -- Discourse: Constructing a Worldview -- Affect: Building Emotional Energy -- Stormfront and the Rise of the Far Right -- Epilogue
N2  - "Social media has fundamentally transformed political life, driving a surge in far-right extremism. In recent years, radical anti-democratic ideologies have entered into the political mainstream, fueled by energy from extreme online environments. But why do far-right extremist movements seem to thrive so well on social media platforms? What takes place within the fringe online spaces that seem to function as incubators for violent extremists? To answer these questions, this book goes inside the "murder capital of the racist Internet", examining 20 years of conversations on Stormfront.org. Using a combination of computational text analysis and close-reading, we seek a deeper understanding of the emotional and social effects of being part of an extremist community. We lay the foundation of a new way of understanding online extremism, building on the tradition of Émile Durkheim and Randall Collins. Online radicalization is not an effect of repeated one-sided arguments suggested by metaphors such as "echo chambers". Instead, we suggest that social media politics can be better understood as rituals: moments of shared attention and emotion that create emotional energy and a sense of intersubjectivity, weaving from participants a political tribe - united, energized, and poised to act"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003108344
ER  -