Digital Islamophobia: Tracking a Far-Right Crisis

Emily Lynell Edwards

Published by De Gruyter 2023

Digital Islamophobia

Tracking a Far-Right Crisis

Emily Lynell Edwards

Volume 21 in the series De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111032887

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About this book

The rise of far-right communities on digital platforms is a global crisis. Digital Islamophobia tracks far-right groups where they are a virtual and vicious threat, exploring how these networks grow, develop, and circulate Islamophobic hate-speech on Twitter. Reconstructing this media ecosystem, Digital Islamophobia traces the reactionary political ideologies animating these groups through feminist data analytic techniques in a transnational study of German and American far-right, digitally networked users.

This work illustrates far-right communities using data visualization techniques, identifies a taxonomy of user-types, analyzes themes and stories that motivate far-right users, and tracks the spread of linked forms of anti-Muslim sentiment, reactionary ideologies, and (mis)information. In doing so, Digital Islamophobia details how far-right discourse is not merely national, or even transatlantic, but increasingly transnationalized among American, German, as well as Indian and Nigerian digital networks. By tracking and tracing the contours of these far-right digital communities on Twitter and analyzing the content of their conversations, Digital Islamophobia provides policy-makers, researchers, and scholars with a potential road-map to stop them.

Puts far-right Islamophobic digital cultures in a necessary global context
Offers critical insight into banalization of far-right politics and digital communication
Provides ways to stop the spread of far-right ideology

Author / Editor information

Emily Lynell Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Educational Technologist at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY. Edwards currently serves as co-director of the grant Digital Humanities Across the Curriculum (DHAC), funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She is also a General Editor at Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ). Her research focuses on the intersection of digital medias, technologies, and platforms, and far-right politics, race, and gender in global contexts. Her work has appeared in journals such as New Media & Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and Glocalism: Journal of culture, politics and innovation.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Chapter I Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter II From Homeland, to Heimat, to Hindutva: Profiling Far-Right Islamophobic Transnational Communities on Twitter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Chapter III Digital Islamophobia in Play Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter IV Exporting Home-Grown American Islamophobia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Chapter V Visualizing Networks, (Mis)Information, & Islamophobia In German Networks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter VI Islamophobia & the Crisis of Conspiracy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Chapter VII Conclusion: Digital Soldiers & Cultural Warfare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of Communication Studies, Political Science, Cultural and Media Studies. Technology professionals.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 186
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 12
Keywords: Far-Right; Islamophobia; Social Media; Nationalism; Digital Culture

eBook

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111032887

Hardcover

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111032429