Right-Wing Extremism in Mainstream Games: A Review of the Literature
September 16, 2024
Hate speech, harassment, and an increasing prevalence of right-wing extremism in online game spaces are of growing concern in the United States. Understanding trends in how and to what extent extremist groups utilize online gaming spaces is vital in taking action to protect players. To synthesize the current state of extant research and suggest future ...
VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series: Studying Right-Wing Extremism
August 1, 2024
VOX-Pol Guest Lecture Series, Spring 2024: Studying Right-Wing Extremism Speaker: Sam Jackson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany. His research focuses on right-wing extremism in the United States; extremism online; social media, activism, and conflict; and computational social science. Presented by Seán ...
Entitlement, Victimhood, and Hate: A Digital Ethnography of the Canadian Right-Wing Social Media Landscape
September 18, 2023
This dissertation is, at its core, an interrogation of white masculinity in Canada’s right-wing spaces. While my interlocutors spent a great deal of time discussing others, namely immigrants, globalist elites, and feminists, through their discourse, they revealed a lot more about themselves and their perceived victimhood (Berbrier, 2000). This victimhood is derived from what Hage ...