Description
| Product ID: | 9781666914719 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Discourse, Power and Society |
| Title: | Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism |
| Authors: | Author: Natalie-Anne Hall |
| Page Count: | 234 |
| Subjects: | Communication studies, Communication studies, Media studies, Political ideologies and movements, Media studies, Political ideologies |
| Description: | Hall identifies the critical conjuncture between Brexit and Facebook that enabled transnational right-wing populism to engage a new audience. White and Right victimhood motivated individuals to use Facebook as a means of harnessing a sense of political control around Brexit. In Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism, Natalie-Anne Hall takes Brexit as a case study for examining the critical consequences of the diffusion of transnational right-wing populist politics on social media. Through multi-method, qualitative research with avidly engaged pro-Brexit Facebook users in the tumultuous post-referendum period, Hall explores the effects of this participation on the on- and offline experiences of these individuals and on their interpretation of events surrounding Brexit. The book examines the socio-political and technological opportunities for this engagement with right-wing populist politics and the consequences of this engagement for transnational White victimhood and what Hall coins “Right victimhood.” Hall demonstrates how the “mainstream” political issue of Brexit acted as a catalyst for engagement with more extreme forms of right-wing politics via Facebook. |
| Imprint Name: | Lexington Books/Fortress Academic |
| Publisher Name: | Lexington Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-15 |
