Extreme right images of radical authenticity: Multimodal aesthetics of history, nature, and gender roles in social media

Far‐Right Framing Processes on Social Media: The Case of the Canadian and Quebec Chapters of Soldiers of Odin

“…In line with other studies focusing on the content posted on social media by far‐right groups, results show that both SOO chapters use Facebook to promote a collective identity centered on shared grievances and the exclusion of others—specifically Muslims (Nouri and Lorenzo‐Dus 2019; Scrivens and Amarasingam 2020). While they do so, they negotiate their self‐representation to motivate and attract a wide range of Facebook followers (Ekman 2014; Forchtner and Kølvraa 2017). In the SOO case, this (re)negotiation is achieved by employing cultural elements that are salient and meaningful in their respective sociopolitical contexts and that can be exploited to infer motivations.…”

“…Second, far‐right groups seem to negotiate their identity and ideologies on social media by adapting their discourse to reach out to a larger segment of the population. Indeed, Forchtner and Kølvraa (2017) argue that the potential for success of far‐right actors lies in their ability to communicate a wide self‐representation in order to attract followers on social media. As such, they demonstrate that the far‐right in Germany produces images and symbols belonging to different subcultures in order to reach as many people as possible.…”

Kalashnikov and Cooking-spoon: Neo-Nazism, Veganism and a Lifestyle Cooking Show on YouTube

“…Instead, the significance of this empirical analysis lies in the fact that the crew is a paradigmatic case of a 'new' extreme right which goes beyond stereotypical expectations (Forchtner and Kølvraa forthcoming 2017). By contradicting commonly held assumptions of how the extreme right (or at least parts of it) acts, this study offers insights into a (post-)modernising scene which has appropriated (life)styles not previously associated with the extreme right.…”

“…For the reasons of space and of a lack of clear data, a discussion of the relatively low occurrence of women in this video will be omitted. (This should, however, not suggest that the (post-)modernising extreme right views women as passive and solely responsible for reproduction, seeForchtner and Kølvraa forthcoming 2017. ) …”

Uniting the far right: how the far-right extremist, New Right, and populist frames overlap on Twitter – a German case study

“…In the 15 March 2019 attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, for example, the perpetrator posted his so-called 'manifesto' on his social media account and livestreamed the attack, whilst Facebook and YouTube struggled to take down the video before it was shared and viewed numerous times. Furthermore, social media is used by far-right groups and individuals to disseminate memes and (sub-)cultural references that resonate with younger audiences in a bid to move away from the stereotypical 'older' neo-Nazi image (Forchtner and Kølvraa 2017;Simpson 2016). As will be detailed below, there has been some research into the discursive overlaps across the far-right scene, and the idea of capturing interlinkages within the far-right scene is not new.…”