Apocalypse on the net : Extreme Threat and the Majority-Minority Relationship on the Romanian Internet.
Title:
Apocalypse on the net : Extreme Threat and the Majority-Minority Relationship on the Romanian Internet.
Author:
Fofiu, Adela.
ISBN:
9783653032628
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (183 pages)
Series:
Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes ; v.451
Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Contents:
Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Panic on the web: cyberhate, identity and fear -- Cyberconflicts and other communication processes -- Identity and emotions in the white globalization -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2: Cyberhate and Romania's national history -- The far right and Romania -- The far right and the internet -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3: Apocalypticism on the New Right blog -- A short description of the blog -- The Apocalypse of Europe -- The Apocalypse of Romania -- Echoes in the public -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4: The New Right cyberhate strategies -- The textual strategies -- The visual strategies -- The macro-strategies: emotions and interactions -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5: The spread of the apocalyptic cyberhate -- The apocalyptic far right virtual rhizome -- The off-line pervasiveness of the apocalyptic cyberhate -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6: The end is nigh. General conclusions -- 'Us'-ness and Otherness in the Romanian cyberhate -- The emotions of cyberhate -- The unpredictable 'what if' -- Methodological appendix -- Illustration appendix -- References.
Abstract:
The apocalypse can bring upon the world either termination, either change. By exploring how emotions, ethnic or national belonging and digital technologies work together in constructing an apocalypticizing national self, this book offers a complex analysis of far rightist apocalyptic narratives. Content analysis performed on the blog of the New Right, a far rightist organization from Romania, unveils a fascinating imaginary of fear and hate toward otherness, of strong beliefs that the world, our world, is ending through its transformation into something else - something that we know and, at the same time, do not know and loath. The social psychology of emotions, belonging and identity, the sociology of globalization and studies on cyberhate are intertwined into the exploration and interpretation of on-line apocalyptic narratives that imagine the Gypsification and Hungarization of Romania and the Islamization of Europe as irreversible change.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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