'Welcome to #GabFam': Far-right virtual community on Gab

被引:36
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作者
Jasser, Greta [1 ]
McSwiney, Jordan [2 ]
Pertwee, Ed [3 ]
Zannettou, Savvas [4 ]
机构
[1] Leuphana Univ, Luneburg, Germany
[2] Univ Sydney, Dept Govt & Int Relat, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[3] London Sch Econ & Polit Sci, London, England
[4] Max Planck Inst Informat, Saarbrucken, Germany
基金
英国经济与社会研究理事会;
关键词
Alt-Right; Alt-Tech; far right; Gab; platform affordances; social media; virtual community; COLLECTIVE IDENTITY; FACEBOOK USE; MOVEMENT; ONLINE; TALK;
D O I
10.1177/14614448211024546
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
With large social media platforms coming under increasing pressure to deplatform far-right users, the Alternative Technology movement (Alt-Tech) emerged as a new digital support infrastructure for the far right. We conduct a qualitative analysis of the prominent Alt-Tech platform Gab, a social networking service primarily modelled on Twitter, to assess the far-right virtual community on the platform. We find Gab's technological affordances - including its lack of content moderation, culture of anonymity, microblogging architecture and funding model - have fostered an ideologically eclectic far-right community united by fears of persecution at the hands of 'Big Tech'. We argue that this points to the emergence of a novel techno-social victimology as an axis of far-right virtual community, wherein shared experiences or fears of being deplatformed facilitate a coalescing of assorted far-right tendencies online.
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页码:1728 / 1745
页数:18
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