Title: The Dark Side of Web-Activism: the Case of CasaPound Italia
Abstract: Use of the internet in collective action is one of the most salient features of mobilisation happening across the world in the first two decades of the new millennium. Worldwide, the Web played a key role in the construction and deployment of huge demonstrations and provided unprecedented participatory tools. These opportunities are also exploited by radical movements and extreme right-wing organisations, whose use of the internet is still not well understood. The seventh chapter, by Emanuele Toscano, proposed here aims to analyse the specific case of an extreme right-wing organisation in Italy, CasaPound, and is based on an empirical research carried out in recent years within this movement. Starting from a review of the literature about this issue, it will analyse in particular the use of the Web by CasaPound, and its particular characteristics.
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-04-19
Language: en
Type: article
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