The alt-right is a growing radical right-wing network that is particularly effective at mobilizing
emotion through digital communications. Introducing 'white thymos' as a framework to …

Thirty years ago, the promise of the internet was more democracy. Citizen journalism, town
halls for millions, transparency in government, and the opportunity for everyday people to …

Social media and the Internet play an important role in the proliferation of hateful and
extreme speech. Looking to contemporary networks of digitally mediated extreme right-wing …

Every discourse on right-wing populism is, more or less explicitly, a discourse on affect.
From claims that right-wing populism emerges from a background of racialized resentment …

This contribution starts from the contemporary surge in conspiracism to develop a theoretical
framework to understand how conspiracy theories make it from the margins to the …

This contribution analyses the nexus between contemporary US populist nationalism and
the post-global media ecology through the case of US radio show host and 'most paranoid …

" Moving from the early 1960s to the presidential candidacy of Donald J. Trump, I, The
People: The Rhetoric of Conservative Populism in the United States draws on theoretical …

Social media metrics allow media outlets to get a granular, real-time understanding of
audience preferences, and may therefore be used to decide what content to prioritize in the …

The objective behind the present article is two-fold. Firstly, departing from the assumption
that distance and salience dynamics are key to both functioning and impact of the media, we …

Ten years after the article by Berry Richards which highlighted the emotional deficit in
political communication (Richards, 2010), affects seem to be the holy grail for scholars who …