Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Alt right"”.
-
ALT-RIGHT OF THE_DONALD AND AUTHORITARIAN COMMUNISTS ON REDDIT: INTERNET MEMES TO BUILD COMMUNITY
… discourses on Reddit. I analyze the alt-right community that found a home on the subreddit r/The_Donald and chart their discourse as it shaped from the quarantine to the establishment of an independent forum called TheDonald.win. I selected memes and the comments around them to build …
-
Mapping Supremacist Ideologies: A Computational and Qualitative Examination of Ideological Cross-Pollination between Extreme Misogynistic and Alt-Right Ecosystems on the Internet
… examines and compares extreme misogynistic and alt-right discourses originating in a sample of extremist internet forums, with a view to how technological affordances enable users across ideological spheres to enforce, disseminate, and (re)construct their worldviews. To conceptualise the …
-
This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Two of Us: Western Genre Cinema Rhetoric of the Twentieth Century and the Modern Alt-Right Movement
… genre cinema as a springboard for evaluating how alt-right political ideologies are absorbed by common, everyday people. Using the exploratory work of political journalist Andrew Marantz and employing his research of the alt-right movement as supporting material, it explores the dissemination of …
-
Hate Speech, Habitus, and Identity Signaling on 4chan’s Politically Incorrect Board
… especially important to this growth has been the alt-right. The alt-right is a far-right white nationalist movement that is known for engaging in trolling, creating memes, and generating conspiracy theories. Past research has focused on the amounts of hate speech and characterizing content on the …
-
Canada First Is Inevitable: Analyzing Youth-Oriented Far-Right Propaganda on TikTok
The gradual disappearance of the so-called ‘alt-right’, caused in part by the gradual deplatforming of its figureheads has created somewhat of a power vacuum, allowing for a new generation of far-right influencers to take over. The Groyper movement, led by 23-year-old Nicholas J. Fuentes, could in …
-
Tradwives: The Housewifization of the Girl Boss
… alongside the normalization and spread of Alt-Right ideology through popular social media platforms. It argues that the tradwife is not a return to tradition, but a commodified performance of domesticity built on the erasure of social reproductive labor. Tracing the lineage of the …
-
What are they gabbin about?: A relational realist approach to small stories (re)told on Gab
… users (re)told to produce an understanding of alt-right pillars of identity. In this paper, I detail many 'small stories' about political correctness, censorship, affirmative action, 'invasions,' and the dissolution of the traditional white, nuclear family that transform into one big story of …
-
Ideological parallels between Gamergate and white supremacy: a thematic content analysis
… of this thesis is the main online hub of the alt-right video game movement Gamergate, for the purpose of examining if the discourse of Gamergate possesses significant ideological parallels with explicitly White Supremacist movements. Data gathered from a variety of Kotaku in Action threads …
-
Searching for Sustainable, Intergenerational, and Multiracial Coalitions on the Neoliberal Campus: A Case Study
… repercussions and re/productions effected by the alt-Right agitator Milo Yiannopolous' visit to DePaul University's campus on his “Dangerous Faggot Tour” and the consequential riot he led through campus in 2016. Looking closely at the relational positionalities and responses of the student …
-
“We need to save civilization first”: examining the role of cyberlibertarian design in the disinformation culture of Reddit’s /r/The_Donald
… landscape, this dissertation explores Reddit’s alt-right subreddit /r/The_Donald, utilizing a framework rooted in both science and technology studies and critical theories of the media. To that end, the dissertation examines the form and content of the subreddit, beginning from its inception in …
-
Contemporary British Literary Culture, Higher Education, and the Diversity Scandal
… professionals are white, independently wealthy graduates of elite universities. Scholars have said little about how the literary field responds to, manifests, and perpetuates this escalating - and racialized - inequality, whose ramifications are evident in everything from Brexit to the …
-
Ironic Distancing: Injecting Bigotry into the American Mainstream
… From there, ironic distancing became adopted by alt-right groups such as the Proud Boys, and then into mainstream American politics through the MAGA movement up to and including the political rhetoric of President Donald Trump and his rhetorical denial of the events of the January 6th …
-
How Donald Trump and the 2016 Presidential Election Eclipsed Frank Underwood’s Election in ‘House of Cards’
… interacted with women, and associated with the alt-right movement; and attempts to establish how House of Cards lost its cynical tone as the real world's socio-cultural sphere began to reflect the dark hyperbolic events that occurred in Frank Underwood’s Washington D.C.</p>
-
On Both Sides - A Novel
… Virginia was the site of a rally for Unite the Right, an Alt-Right (neo-Nazi) group. This group sought to further white nationalist ideals and to protest the proposed removal of statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Numerous counter-protesters filled the streets of …
-
Negative Masculinity: Theories of Freedom in American Literature after 1950
… regressive form of masculinity in contemporary alt-right movements, and it uses Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho to understand the disconnect between reality and fantasy in the performance of mastery. Each of these chapters are read with this analytic of negative masculinity in mind, and the …
-
Rhetorical Resonances: An Affective Logic of Emergence in Space and Time
… The first case study examines the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and the discursive equating of antifa and the Alt-Right. The second case analyzes the controversy surrounding a graduate instructor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln who was fired for confronting an undergraduate …