Decentralized hate: sustained connective action in online far-right community

The logic of connective action has been used to study social movements where collective identity and organizational coordination are no longer necessary precursors of mobilization. However, scholars have yet to identify the conditions necessary for sustained digitally networked action to take place. This paper focuses on far-right online activism, an area of research that has received less scholarly attention, to identify the conditions necessary for sustained digitally networked action by comparing a decentralized online far-right community (4chan/pol) to a centralized one (Stormfront). Cultural partialities like time-preference, anonymity, and affinity for experimental tactics interact with platform elements to sustain digitally networked connective action in a decentralized community, while an organizationally backed centralized online community continues to operate under the familiar logic of collective action.