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DESCRIPTION:Literature on the alt-right’s social media presence in the mid
 -2010s asserts the alt-right’s implication in other significant online ph
 enomena of the period. Researchers have argued that social media platforms
  are opportune spaces for extremism to occur\, highlighting the co-occurre
 nce on the Reddit social media news platform of the misogynistic online ha
 rassment campaign Gamergate\, the MAGA political movement popularised by D
 onald Trump\, and the alt-right. But the implication of MAGA and Gamergate
  in the alt-right remains more asserted than empirically demonstrated to d
 ate. Therefore\, this research asks: to what extent did alt-right activity
  relate to the activity of Gamergate and MAGA on Reddit? This analysis use
 s social network analysis (SNA) to identify the alt-right and its activity
  on a number of subreddits on Reddit\, before exploring whether the alt-ri
 ght is so closely related to MAGA and Gamergate that their collective cons
 tituencies of millions of Redditors can be generalised into the alt-right.
  \n\nThis research demonstrates a relational methodological framework to e
 xamining the overlaps and distinctions between reputationally and circumst
 antially adjacent phenomena on a large-scale platform like Reddit. Through
  applying SNA to large-scale Reddit trace data\, it finds that alt-right R
 edditors constitute a narrow and largely unique constituency on Reddit. Al
 t-right Redditors\, as identified among subreddits like /r/altright\, see 
 the usefulness of the presence and momentum of MAGA and Gamergate as an op
 portunity to ‘redpill’ potential ideologues into the alt-right’s Anti-S
 emitic\, white nationalist identity through drawing on similar grievances 
 to their ideology. However\, Gamergate and MAGA Redditors in /r/KotakuInAc
 tion and /r/The_Donald largely do not engage in alt-right activity among /
 r/altright and its counterparts. These phenomena remain qualitatively dist
 inct in ideology and activity\, including through expressing disinterest o
 r repellence at the extremism of the alt-right. Notably\, alt-right Reddit
 ors also resent how third-parties conflate the alt-right with Gamergate or
  MAGA due to the perceived ideological impurity of the latter phenomena. T
 his analysis finds that the alt-right was only loosely associated with the
 se larger adjacent phenomena during this mid-2010s period. Its methodology
  and findings justify the necessity of examining the specific relationship
  between phenomena to avoid presumptive generalisations of social media us
 ers that may belie significant differences of ideology and behaviour.
DTSTAMP:20260308T065652Z
LOCATION:Cullen Room
SUMMARY:Relating transgression: using Reddit to examine the ties between th
 e alt-right and Gamergate and MAGA - Nicholas Corbett
URL:https://conferences.acspri.org.au/2024/talk/ARRNKB/
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