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The Reactionary Web

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Digital platforms have become a critical stage for far-right movements in the US. This book shows how white nationalist networks, including the Alt-Right, exploit the Internet’s openness and techno...
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  • 01 January 2027
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Digital platforms have become a critical stage for far-right movements in the US.

This book shows how white nationalist networks, including the Alt-Right, exploit the Internet’s openness and techno-publicity to spread ideology, organize and maintain visibility online. Analyzing interfaces, website infrastructure and user-generated content, the book reframes online extremism as a product of capitalism as much as ideology. It highlights how platforms and profit structures shape reactionary media.

Offering a bold intervention for critical media studies, this is a call for reimagining the networked public sphere and understanding how technology, power and online politics converge today.

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Price: $127.95
Pages: 240
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publication Date: 01 January 2027
ISBN: 9781529256888
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Impact of science and technology on society, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects, Social groups: alternative lifestyles / subcultures, Disinformation and misinformation
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Reed Van Schenck is Assistant Professor of Communication and Media in the School of Business at IE University, Spain.

Introduction: An Autopsy of the Alt-Right

1. The Demise and Rise of the Alt-Right

2. The Optics War

3. Feeling Privacy

4. Server Attachments

5. The Parallel Economy

Conclusion