TY - BOOK
T1 - Bad news travels fast
T2 - The co-optation of mainstream media to promote radical and extremist ideologies online
AU - Dowling, Melissa-Ellen
PY - 2025/4
Y1 - 2025/4
N2 - How are extremist political ideologies communicated online? What enables political claims to gain traction with and convince audiences of their veracity? These are questions that governments and researchers alike continue to grapple with. We know, for example that convincing rhetoric might variously deploy speech devices, such as appeals to supernatural authority, experiences, and historical lessons. Yet online forums permit another device that advocates of ideologies often use: selective‘ editorialised’ sharing of mainstream news content within insular online communities.
AB - How are extremist political ideologies communicated online? What enables political claims to gain traction with and convince audiences of their veracity? These are questions that governments and researchers alike continue to grapple with. We know, for example that convincing rhetoric might variously deploy speech devices, such as appeals to supernatural authority, experiences, and historical lessons. Yet online forums permit another device that advocates of ideologies often use: selective‘ editorialised’ sharing of mainstream news content within insular online communities.
KW - political ideologies
KW - Extremism
U2 - 10.25957/xyhg-q312
DO - 10.25957/xyhg-q312
M3 - Commissioned report
T3 - Jeff Bleich Centre Policy Perspectives
BT - Bad news travels fast
PB - Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, Flinders University
CY - Bedford Park, South Australia
ER -