Routledge - European and American Extreme Right Groups and the Internet

Explore the digital landscape of radical politics with this Routledge publication. This book examines how right-wing extremist organizations across the globe utilize the Internet as a primary tool for communication and recruitment. By adopting a social movement perspective, the text investigates the role of digital platforms in identity-building within radical right-wing groups. Readers will learn how these organizations use the Internet to set their own agendas, build international contacts, spread specific ideologies, and encourage political mobilization. The study is grounded in a comparative content analysis of more than 500 extreme right organizational websites from countries including France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. This work provides a necessary look at Internet politics and the methods used by extremist groups to reach audiences in the modern age.