January 6
Of Humans, Machines, and Extremism: The Role of Platforms in Facilitating Undemocratic Cognition
September 18, 2023The events surrounding the 2020 U.S. election and the January 6 insurrection have challenged scholarly understanding of concepts like collective action, radicalization, and mobilization. In this article, we argue that online far-right radicalization is better understood as a form of distributed cognition, in which the groups’ online environment incentivizes certain patterns of behavior over others. ...