Adrienne L. Massanari

Gaming Democracy

How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book reveals how play and gaming culture have been used by individuals and groups to mainstream far-right ideology through social media platforms. Focusing on the design of platforms like Reddit, Twitter (now X), and Facebook, Massanari shows how they have amplified and mainstreamed the political right and its loose coalition of misogynists, incels, white nationalists, extremist ideologues, anti-Semites, and Islamophobes"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 229mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9780262549417
• ISBN-10: 0262549417
• Artikelnr.: 70877294

Autorenporträt

Adrienne L. Massanari is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at American University. She is the author of Participatory Culture, Community, and Play: Learning from Reddit.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1   The Game According to Silicon Valley
2   From #Gamergate to the “Alt-Right”
3   Geek Masculinity and the Cult(ure) of Tech
4   Reddit’s Love Affair with r/The_Donald
5   Metagaming Democracy
Appendix: Timeline of Events
Notes
Bibliography
Index