Studying the<i>Nordic Resistance Movement</i>: three urgent questions for researchers of contemporary neo-Nazis and their media practices

Askanius, Tina

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“…Despite their increasing importance, research on RNS is still quite sparse. A number of studies have focused on related aspects, such as the spread of disinformation and fake news (e.g., Fletcher et al, ), extreme‐right groups’ use of the Internet (e.g., Askanius, ; Caiani & Kröll, ; Simpson & Druxes, ), and media populism (Krämer, , ). However, only a few studies have analyzed hyperpartisan alternative media outlets and their critical role in the emergence of digital news infrastructures.…”

Section: Studying Right‐wing Alternative Online News Mediamentioning

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Beyond Breitbart: Comparing Right‐Wing Digital News Infrastructures in Six Western Democracies

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Right‐wing online news media have emerged in many countries as an important force in the media landscape, positioning themselves as an alternative to a perceived political and media mainstream. This article studies these sites as a cornerstone of right‐wing digital news infrastructures in six Western democracies (Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Drawing on content analyses of websites and social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter as well as on audience metrics, the article analyses content supply and audience demand structures, as well as organizational and thematic characteristics of seventy alternative right‐wing online news sites. We find that a country’s media and political context, in particular the representation of right‐wing positions in the political and legacy media sphere, can explain variation in the supply of—and demand for—right‐wing news across countries, but is mitigated by transnational audiences. At the same time, we can account for cross‐national heterogeneity of news sites, ranging from sites with a “normalized” appearance to more radical sites that clearly set themselves apart from legacy news outlets in terms of their thematic categories, their funding strategy, and their organizational transparency, leading to various types of digital right‐wing “alternatives” to mainstream news.

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Section: Studying Right‐wing Alternative Online News Mediamentioning

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“…This brings the benefit of, as Hammersley and Atkinson has it, 'living simultaneously in two worlds, that of participation and that of research' (Hammersley & Atkinson, 2007, p. 89). Moreover, in the case of working in disagreeable social fringes, such as the white radical-nationalist milieu, the podcast ethnographer has valuable opportunities to distancing and thus for coping with the 'emotional labour' required by this sort of field work (Askanius, 2019). Finally, we should note that podcast ethnography is a novel method that indeed needs further exploration -and a good deal of critical appraisal -in order to establish itself alongside the sibling methods of online ethnography.…”

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“…However, it has conversely been suggested that podcasts are rather 'complex multimodal texts' (Vasquez, 2013, p. 240), distinguishable from traditional radio due to the 'hyper-intimacy' of close and active listening to people from one's own community or specific sphere of interest (Berry, 2016, p. 667;Carlton, 2018). Podcasts can therefore be fruitfully studied in-depth to capture how interaction between the podcast speakers (re-)produces a particular universe (Askanius 2019;Nilsson 2020).…”

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Podcast ethnography

Lundström

2020

International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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This article introduces the method of podcast ethnography. The method encompasses three general stages: to explore a podcast from a particular social field, to engage with it through careful, ethnographic reflexivity and to examine the podcast by developing typologies and themes expedient for analysis. Podcast ethnography is beneficial due to its spatial and temporal flexibility; observing a podcast universe can be performed on the move and in parallel with other tasks. This advantage enables a muchneeded breathing space for researchers inquiring vehement milieus, such as white radical nationalism. The article uses an example from this precise milieu in Sweden-the podcast Motgift [Antidote]-to illustrate and flesh out the potentials and challenges of applying the method's three stages. In so doing, the article argues for inclusion of podcast ethnography into the extended family of ethnographic methods.

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“…The qualitative content analysis draws on empirical materials that have been purposely selected from the extensive database of digital content collected during an intensive period of online ethnographic fieldwork in 2018 comprising more than 1000 items (images, videos, memes, articles, speeches, manifests, podcasts) and field notes covering the broader time period of 2015-2018 (see Tina Askanius 2019). The analytical process unfolded across several stages of mining the data for themes and patterns across the dataset.…”

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Women in the Nordic Resistance Movement and their online media practices: between internalised misogyny and “embedded feminism”

Askanius

2021

Feminist Media Studies

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This paper is based on a case study of the online media practices of the neo-Nazi organisation, the Nordic Resistance Movement, conducted in the context of an ongoing project on contemporary forms of violent extremism in Sweden. Focusing on the activities of female "online influencers", the paper explores the contradictory discourses around the role of women as "race warriors" and "Nordic wives" as this is articulated both by the women in the organisation themselves and in the online universe of the organisation more generally. On the one hand, women's positions are determined and heavily policed by men in an organisation that openly propagates women's subordination to men and their natural and biological role in the realm of homemaking. On the other, the discourses produced by these women are saturated by ideas of female empowerment, sisterhood, emancipation and the importance of women in the reproduction of the white race. The content analysis of online propaganda produced by female activists about the role of women positions these contradictory pulls of "White femininity" inherent to the white supremacist movements at the current political juncture in which the extreme right is growing and actively looking to recruit women as part of a broader strategy to "mainstream" in Sweden and mobilise internationally.

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Studying theNordic Resistance Movement: three urgent questions for researchers of contemporary neo-Nazis and their media practices

Cited by 21 publications

References 19 publications

Beyond Breitbart: Comparing Right‐Wing Digital News Infrastructures in Six Western Democracies

Beyond Breitbart: Comparing Right‐Wing Digital News Infrastructures in Six Western Democracies

Podcast ethnography

Women in the Nordic Resistance Movement and their online media practices: between internalised misogyny and “embedded feminism”

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