This paper critically examines the use of online humor and ridicule to promote and
normalize far-right exclusionary discourses. Through a critical qualitative study of the Please …

This article brings frameworks from literary and cultural studies and methods from network
science to bear on a central topic in political communication research: polarization. Recent …

This chapter discusses cultural analysis approaches to the study of racial and ethnic humor
from a comparative perspective. It gives an overview of existing approaches to the …

That Donald J. Trump won the US Presidential Election of 2016 defied the expectations
ofalmost all seasoned observers of the US political system. Scholarly explanations …

In the dual dynamic of digital communication studies and digital discourse analysis, the aim
of this chapter is to understand the ambivalence of the memetic circulation of# Chadolf# …

This doctoral thesis examines the racial discourse of “alt-lite” YouTube personalities and
their audiences. The term “alt-lite” was coined in the mid-2010s by self-avowed members of …

In the fall of 2022, I taught a new course on disinformation and conspiracy theories called
“Birds Aren't Real: Critical Disinformation Studies.” The course took its name from the “Birds …