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1. 'Nazis Aren’t Welcome Here': Selling Democracy in the Age of Far-Right Extremism

Author

Kurt Sengul and Jordan McSwiney

Subjects
australia, crisis communication, democracy, extremism, far right, policy framing, public sphere, Communication. Mass media, P87-96
Abstract

This article critically examines the communicative and policy-framing response of Australia’s Victorian government to the state’s growing crisis of far-right extremism. Through a critical discourse analysis of the Victorian Andrews and Allan Labor governments’ political communication from 2021 to 2023, we explain how the government discursively responded to the rise of far-right extremism. We found the Andrews and Allan governments employed a range of communicative, discursive, and legitimisation strategies to both legitimise the government’s policy to ban Nazi symbols and gestures and to (re)establish Victoria’s reputation as an inclusive and multicultural liberal democracy. The findings of this article broaden our empirical understanding of the central role of political and crisis communication in responding to extremism and may provide a template for other governments to respond to the global crisis of far-right extremism.

Published
2024
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6. Sharing the hate? Memes and transnationality in the far right’s digital visual culture

Author

Michael Vaughan, Annett Heft, Jordan McSwiney, and Matthias Hoffmann

Subjects
Far right, Transnationality, Collective identity, Salient, Aesthetics, Communication, Visual media, Sociology, Library and Information Sciences, Visual culture
Abstract

Current research on visual media and the far right creates two expectations: that memes play an increasingly salient role in the far right’s digital visual culture, and that the visual and particip...

Published
2021

7. The Social Life of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: A Digital Social Network Analysis

Author

Nyibeny Gum Naam, Caitlin Hamilton, Laura J. Shepherd, and Jordan McSwiney

Subjects
021110 strategic, defence & security studies, Global and Planetary Change, Civil society, 05 social sciences, Geography, Planning and Development, 0211 other engineering and technologies, Social network analysis (criminology), 02 engineering and technology, Public administration, 050601 international relations, 0506 political science, Social life, Political science, Security council
Abstract

In the twenty years since the adoption of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 on “women, peace and security” (in 2000), civil society organisations have continued to shape the agenda's ...

Published
2021

8. Social networks and digital organisation: far right parties at the 2019 Australian federal election

Author

Jordan McSwiney

Subjects
Far right, 0508 media and communications, Communication, Political science, 05 social sciences, 050602 political science & public administration, 050801 communication & media studies, Social media, Federal election, Library and Information Sciences, Public administration, 0506 political science
Abstract

This paper analyses the social media networks and content of four Australian parties, assessing their relationship to the far right at the time of the 2019 Australian federal election. Using social...

Published
2020

9. ‘Welcome to #GabFam’: Far-right virtual community on Gab

Author

Ed Pertwee, Greta Jasser, Savvas Zannettou, and Jordan McSwiney

Subjects
Far right, Sociology and Political Science, Movement (music), business.industry, Communication, social media, 05 social sciences, Internet privacy, Politics, far right, 050801 communication & media studies, Alt-Right, 0506 political science, virtual community, Alt-Tech, 0508 media and communications, platform affordances, Political science, 050602 political science & public administration, Social media, Gab, business, Virtual community, Alternative technology
Abstract

With large social media platforms coming under increasing pressure to deplatform far-right users, the Alternative Technology movement (Alt-Tech) emerged as a new digital support infrastructure for the far right. We conduct a qualitative analysis of the prominent Alt-Tech platform Gab, a social networking service primarily modelled on Twitter, to assess the far-right virtual community on the platform. We find Gab’s technological affordances – including its lack of content moderation, culture of anonymity, microblogging architecture and funding model – have fostered an ideologically eclectic far-right community united by fears of persecution at the hands of ‘Big Tech’. We argue that this points to the emergence of a novel techno-social victimology as an axis of far-right virtual community, wherein shared experiences or fears of being deplatformed facilitate a coalescing of assorted far-right tendencies online.

Published
2021

10. Far-Right Political Parties in Australia : Disorganisation and Electoral Failure

Author

Jordan McSwiney and Jordan McSwiney

Subjects
Right-wing extremists--Australia, Right and left (Political science)--Australia, Political parties--Australia
Abstract

This book examines how Australian far-right parties organise and operate to better understand their limited electoral success.Australian far-right parties have yet to see results comparable to far-right parties in other contexts. Unlike many of their European counterparts that have made significant electoral gains up to and including participation in national governments, the Australian far-right parties of the ‘fourth wave'have experienced relatively poor electoral results. But this does not necessarily mean that Australia is uniquely hostile to far-right politics. Focusing particularly on the 2019 Australian federal election, this book takes an organisational approach to better understand why Australian far-right parties struggle electorally. Through the novel lens of disorganised parties, the author argues that the failure to develop a functioning party organisation has resulted in Australian far-right parties being unable to effectively navigate their political environment. By focusing on disorganisation, this book provides a new perspective for understanding the limited electoral impact of the far right in Australia today, despite favourable conditions like normalised Islamophobia and growing dissatisfaction with mainstream parties.This book will be of interest to scholars and students of party politics, the far right, populism, and Australian politics.

Published
2024

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