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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...
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  • 12 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: 12 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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‘This stunning book is a wake-up call to understand the reactionary web's mutational resilience. Reed Van Schenck unravels and reweaves that web – this is abolitionist media literacy for a just future’. - Jack Bratich, Rutgers University

'In The Reactionary Web, Reed Van Schenck has given us a compelling look at the alt-right online. As Van Schenck so capably argues here, the emergence of these forces online is an extension of the way the internet is built, rather than an exception to its design. An important read for anyone interested in race and digital technologies.' ~ Jessie Daniels, Hunter College-CUNY
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

Chapter 1: The Demise and Rise of the Alt-Right

Chapter 2: The Optics War

Chapter 3: The Feeling of Privacy

Chapter 4: Contract and Reaction

Chapter 5: The Parallel Economy

Conclusion: Web Abolition