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Apocalypse on the net [electronic resource] : extreme threat and the majority-minority relationship on the Romanian internet / Adela Fofiu.

Summary:

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 th.

Record details

ISBN: 9783653032628
ISBN: 3653032628
Physical Description: 1 online resource (183 pages) : color illustrations.
Publisher: Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	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 strategiesThe 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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.