The dark side of the networked public sphere: How the right-wing is (ab)using the internet's affordances
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featuring Jonas Kaiser, Berkman Klein Affiliate
Teaser
Far-right, alt-right, identitarians: Right-wing actors are active all over the internet, adapt to platforms, game the system, blur the lines between off- and online, and create their own virtual spaces. This talk will showcase how the right-wing in the United States and in Germany (ab)use the internet, and how social media algorithms involuntarily contribute to the right-wing's reach.
Parent Event
Berkman Klein Luncheon Series
Event Date
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 12:00 pm Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University Harvard Law School campus [LOCATION UPDATE] Pound Hall, Room 101, Ballantine Classroom RSVP required to attend in person
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The right-wing is rising. Not only in the United States but also in Germany and other European countries. And the internet helped. Right-wing actors are active all over the internet, adapt to platforms, game the system, blur the lines between off- and online, and create their own virtual spaces. In addition, social media platforms like YouTube contribute involuntarily to the right-wing's reach and, perhaps, influence with their algorithms. But how bad is it? How should we deal with right-wing actors? And what would be a way forward?
About Jonas
Jonas Kaiser is a DFG postdoctoral fellow and affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and Associate Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. His research interest are the transformation of the networked public sphere, digital methods, and political communication. At the Berkman Klein Center he is working on his research project on the "right-wing web," in which he aims to understand how and where right-wing actors make use of the internet to connect online and form international networks. He wrote his doctoral thesis at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen about online climate change scepticism in Germany. His academic writing has been published in journals like International Journal of Communication, Communication and the Public, Media and Communication, or Environmental Communication as well as handbooks and edited volumes.
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