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How BreadTube challenges right-wing discourse

Article

Marit van Dijck

25/01/2021

15 minutes to read

BreadTube, a loose association of leftist content creators, successfully appropriates right-wing and mainstream techniques to break into their information flows online. But their usage of neoliberal affordances might threaten their future.

Going dark: The secret social lives of extremists (Julia Ebner)

Review

Ico Maly

29/10/2020

6 minutes to read

Going Dark:The secret social lives of extremists is a well structured introduction to the global far right, and succeeds in bringing academic research to a broad audience.

QArmy vs. QAnon Debunkers: The role of confirmation bias

Paper

Federica Morgandi

23/03/2020

12 minutes to read

QAnon is an American conspiracy theory associated with Trump supporters and right-wing politics. How can one article - which seeks to explain what QAnon is - influence debunkers and believers of the theory?

Political polarization Ghent linguistic landscape protest from the left

Political polarization in Ghent: a "radical" linguistic landscape

Article

Claudia Gerards

Lisa van Turnhout

Merveille N'gbale

13/11/2019

32 minutes to read

With a shift towards the far-right, politics in Flanders have become rather polarized. In Ghent's linguistic landscape, we see counter noise coming from the left. What does this tell us about Ghent in the context of Flemish politics?

Professor Jan Blommaert on Antonio Gramsci and the internet

Professor Jan Blommaert on Gramsci and the internet

Video

The Editors

28/11/2019

What would the communist intellectual Antonio Gramsci think about hegemony and the internet? Jan Blommaert (Tilburg University) answers that question.

Farage, Brexit and the anti-Enlightenment

Article

Dieuwertje Schipper

15/01/2019

13 minutes to read

After Brexit, we can see what a success Farage's campaign has been. By talking about the right issues during crises, Farage appealed to a certain population in the UK. His active online campaign was also a major contributing factor in his success.

How Forum voor Democratie puts itself in the spotlights

Paper

Nikki Bergmans

27/12/2018

13 minutes to read

Forum voor Democratie is one of the fastest growing Dutch political parties, both on Facebook and off. How did they make this happen?

Slavic Union is on the rise in Eastern Europe

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

27/11/2018

20 minutes to read

Much of the information about Alt-Right nowadays comes from 'the West'. This is not very accurate, because the movement is strong and growing in Eastern Europe. This article describes the concept of Slavia and why we should know about it.