Rise of the Far Right

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This volume offers a timely, novel, and important contribution to current and emerging research on the nexus of the far right and digital technologies. -- Tanner Mirrlees, Assistant Professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Analysing recruitment tactics, this volume provides significant information on how far right actors and their supporters become engaged in extremist politics, and how their contributions to and consumption of media artefacts on these platforms alters and influences their views and actions. -- Peter Lentini, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Monash University Unraveling the connection between the radical right and technology is awkward, messy and dirty work, but work that the scientific community simply has to do, because its duty is to approach and explain existing social trends and events. At the same time, there is no intellectual sword with which one could cut the tangled knot of technology and the radical right - we need many a hands and eyes that will carefully, devotedly and meticulously untangle part by part the complex (internet) network, so that we can understand the fusion of technology and the contemporary digital radical right. If such a need is ignored and the process of analyzing the connection between technology and the contemporary radical right does not start, there is no doubt that the radical right will continue to further develop its use of digital technology - we will never be able to penetrate to the core of that relationship. At the same time, the authors of this book, in trying to expose this connection, had to come into contact with a multitude of invasive radical right-wing thoughts and content, leaving themselves exposed to the danger of experiencing permanent negative consequences for their political perception and worldview. Therefore, we must not allow their noble sacrifice to be in vain. * The Croatian Book Review *