Concerns surrounding the threats that digital platforms pose to the functioning of Western
liberal democracies have grown since the 2016 US election. Yet despite a preponderance of …

Drawing on research from digital media studies, political theory and rhetoric, this article
explores online radical conservative and reactionary 'ideological entrepreneurs'. It argues …

The British war on woke is an intensive ideological campaign against social justice
movements that is mobilising far-right tropes and conspiracy theories within mainstream …

Digital (participatory and shareable) media are driving profound changes to contemporary
politics. That includes, this article argues, important changes to the production …

From its origins in Black grassroots activist and political consciousness raising spaces, the
term 'woke'has shifted in its significance. Now broadly synonymous with statements on …

Early media coverage of COVID-19, between 1 January and 31 March 2020, provided
Alternative Media Personalities (AMPs) an opportunity to provide conspiratorial …

How might we understand the forms of mediatized politics that are signified under the dreary
heading of the 'culture war (s)'? This article addresses this question in the form of seven …

Recent racial justice protests in response to police-related brutality in the US illuminate
tensions reflective of persistent power differentials and social and racial traumas of which …

In social movements, activists may belong to either the disadvantaged or the advantaged
group (eg, Black racial justice activists or White racial justice activists). Across three …

The SARS-CoV-2 strain of the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease has ushered in a
global pandemic of terrifying proportions (Horton 2021). A new slang term for the …