Conservative and Right-Wing Movements

Blee, Kathleen M.; Creasap, Kimberly

doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.012809.102602

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“…Within a social-cognition framework, a different literature has focussed on the ideological polarisation currently characterising many developed democracies [53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72]. Most of this work has been carried out within English-speaking countries and is particularly suitable to the Australia setting [19,73,74].…”

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Citizens’ Views of Australia’s Future to 2050

2014

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Abstract:In four focus group exercises involving both forecasting and backcasting approaches, we gave approximately 100 Australian citizens the opportunity to discuss likely, desirable and feared futures to 2050. The image they paint is both coherent and consistent. Education, governance, personal attitudes and societal trends, rather than specific events, are drivers of a future which is perceived as being largely shaped by human choices. Innovation is believed to be more necessary in novel social arrangements than in further technology. The most feared futures arise from an amplification of trends already at play in the present: economic growth at the expense of the environment and quality of life, lack of equity, poor government, corporate greed, commercialism and erosion of social values. Economic and material growth does not feature in the most desired futures which are local, inclusive, peaceful, equitable and in some cases frugal. The visions and scenarios developed find a place within established foresight frameworks and global political narratives, but seem to lie at the fringe of current media and short-term political discourse. These results should not be interpreted as representative of the overall Australian population, but suggest that extending the analysis to the broader community could provide significant insights and enrich the discussion of important societal choices. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 223

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Section: Analysis: Interpreting Our Results Within Common Narratives mentioning

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Citizens’ Views of Australia’s Future to 2050

2014

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“…They are also manifested for some in the belief that growing secularism will lead to persecution of conservative Christians. In this scenario, a tyrannical state will remove religious liberties, civil liberties, and gun rights (Bivins 2008;Blee and Creasap 2010).…”

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In-home firearm access among US adolescents and the role of religious subculture: Results from a nationally representative study

Stroope

Tom

2017

Social Science Research

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“…In the various studies that have analyzed online ER activity, certain differences can be observed among researchers in relation to their categorization of this activity and associated organizations (Blee & Creasap, 2010; see also Table 1). Burris, Smith, and Strahm (2000) proposed a set of eight primarily U.S.--centric categories in their analysis of a White supremacist website network; Holocaust Revisionists, Christian Identity Theology, Neo--Nazis, White Supremacists, Foreign (non--US) Nationalists, Racist Skinheads, Music, and Books/Merchandise.…”

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Down the (White) Rabbit Hole: The Extreme Right and Online Recommender Systems

O’Callaghan

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Conway

et al. 2014

Social Science Computer Review

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In addition to hosting user--generated video content, YouTube provides recommendation services, where sets of related and recommended videos are presented to users, based on factors such as co--visitation count and prior viewing history. This article is specifically concerned with extreme right (ER) video content, portions of which contravene hate laws and are thus illegal in certain countries, which are recommended by YouTube to some users. We develop a categorization of this content based on various schema found in a selection of academic literature on the ER, which is then used to demonstrate the political articulations of YouTube's recommender system, particularly the narrowing of the range of content to which users are exposed and the potential impacts of this. For this purpose, we use two data sets of English and German language ER YouTube channels, along with channels suggested by YouTube's related video service. A process is observable whereby users accessing an ER YouTube video are likely to be recommended further ER content, leading to immersion in an ideological bubble in just a few short clicks. The evidence presented in this article supports a shift of the almost exclusive focus on users as content creators and protagonists in extremist cyberspaces to also consider online platform providers as important actors in these same spaces.

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Conservative and Right-Wing Movements

Cited by 259 publications

References 93 publications

Citizens’ Views of Australia’s Future to 2050

Citizens’ Views of Australia’s Future to 2050

In-home firearm access among US adolescents and the role of religious subculture: Results from a nationally representative study

Down the (White) Rabbit Hole: The Extreme Right and Online Recommender Systems

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