Abstract The polarizing tendency of politically leaned social media is usually claimed to be spontaneous, or a by-product underlying platform algorithms. This contribution revisits both claims by articulating the digital world and rules derived from capitalist accumulation in post-Fordist age, transdisciplinary perspective human exact sciences. Behind individual freedom, there rigid pyramidal h...

With large social media platforms coming under increasing pressure to deplatform far-right users, the Alternative Technology movement (Alt-Tech) emerged as a new digital support infrastructure for far right. We conduct qualitative analysis of prominent Alt-Tech platform Gab, networking service primarily modelled on Twitter, assess virtual community platform. find Gab’s technological affordances...

We combine two dominant approaches to studying how issues influence elections: one that emphasizes parties’ issue positions, and the other ownership. Research from latter approach shows voters ascribe greater economic competence right-wing parties. Based on this finding, we argue parties enhance their ownership when perceive them shifting right. In following step, show perceived rightward shift...

We contend that the Trump administration mainstreamed far-right politics through its foreign policy on China, World Health Organization and handling of Covid-19 pandemic. Our Gramscian-Kautskyian theoretical perspective concentrates elite power, class, interconnections between advanced global capitalism domestic inequality. show amplified US Sinophobia even as it deepened connections Chinese co...

Support for radical parties on both the left and right is on the rise, fueling intuition that both radicalisms have similar underpinnings. Indeed, existing studies show that radical left and right voters have overlapping positions and preferences. In this article, however, we focus on the differences in the voting bases of such parties. We show that radical left and right voters have sharply di...