Affective Practice of Soldiering: How Sharing Images Is Used to Spread Extremist and Racist Ethos on Soldiers of Odin Facebook Site

The paper explores how visual affective practice is used to spread and bolster a nationalist, extremist racist ethos on the public Facebook page of anti-immigrant group, Soldiers Odin. Affective refers particular sensibility political discourse, shaped by social formations digital technologies—the contexts in which groups or communities gather, discuss act. study shows sharing responding images fortify moral claims, sense exclusionary solidarity promote white nationalist masculinity legitimizes practices “soldiering.” By examining both representations their reactions (emoticons), demonstrates ideas values are collectively strengthened through supported platform infrastructures. Most importantly, it that instead considering affect protecting nation as natural result “authentic” gut feeling, we should understand ways purposefully produced circulated.