Nearing the Far(right)
Nearing the Far(right)

Author: Jaclyn R. Fox

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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On January 6, 2021, images of Capitol insurrectionists flooded the newsfeed. From the shirtless "QAnon Shaman" in a Viking hat and face paint, to fully kitted out militia members and suburban moms in MAGA gear, law enforcement and news media quickly worked to understand just who these individuals - so bent on overturning the election - actually were. This dissertation explores this key puzzle of who and what comprises the burgeoning modern-day far-right. Through three articles I use open-source social media data to analyze the modern-day far-right (2011-2023) vis-a-vis traditional ways of understanding the movement, including ideology, psychological motivation, and organizational structure. I engage in a variety of analytic methods: from machine learning and text-as-data analysis, to sentiment analysis, topic modelling, and content analysis. More specifically, the first article investigates the potential for using open-source social media data to explore extremism in the U.S. military. I use data from five relevant subreddits: r/army, r/navy, r/AirForce, r/USMC, and r/Military to understand this potential by service and in relation to specific "inflection points." In the second article, I examine the modern-day far-right's stance on gender politics and the rights and roles of women using the dual-process motivational model (Duckitt 2001). Specifically, I compare the prevalence of psychological motivations: social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) across gender-relevant comments on the influential fascist forum, Iron March, from 2011-2017. In the third article I examine the evolution of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment on Iron March. I also map the spread of the anti-LGBTQ+ groomer narrative between fringe (23 alternative platforms) and mainstream conversations. Overall, this dissertation argues that the modern-day far-right movement is expanding, incorporating hitherto mainstream individuals into a broad coalition based in hatred, conspiracy, and anti-government action. To stem the movement's growth and potential for destruction, it is essential to begin with a mapping of the modern-day far-right, using a combination of machine learning, text-as-data analysis, and content analysis. Through this analysis we can see the growth in violent elements of the far-right (e.g., preponderance of those motivated by SDO), as well as the mainstreaming of conspiracies through the online ecosystem.

Roads to Dominion
Roads to Dominion

Author: Sara Diamond

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 1995-09-08

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780898628647

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Diamond looks at conservative politics in the United States from World War II to the post-Reagan years.

Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right
Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right

Author: Maik Fielitz

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2018-12-31

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 3839446708

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How have digital tools and networks transformed the far right's strategies and transnational prospects? This volume presents a unique critical survey of the online and offline tactics, symbols and platforms that are strategically remixed by contemporary far-right groups in Europe and the US. It features thirteen accessible essays by an international range of expert scholars, policy advisors and activists who offer informed answers to a number of urgent practical and theoretical questions: How and why has the internet emboldened extreme nationalisms? What counter-cultural approaches should civil societies develop in response?

The Far Right Today
The Far Right Today

Author: Cas Mudde

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-10-25

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 150953685X

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The far right is back with a vengeance. After several decades at the political margins, far-right politics has again taken center stage. Three of the world’s largest democracies – Brazil, India, and the United States – now have a radical right leader, while far-right parties continue to increase their profile and support within Europe. In this timely book, leading global expert on political extremism Cas Mudde provides a concise overview of the fourth wave of postwar far-right politics, exploring its history, ideology, organization, causes, and consequences, as well as the responses available to civil society, party, and state actors to challenge its ideas and influence. What defines this current far-right renaissance, Mudde argues, is its mainstreaming and normalization within the contemporary political landscape. Challenging orthodox thinking on the relationship between conventional and far-right politics, Mudde offers a complex and insightful picture of one of the key political challenges of our time.

Taking a hands-on approach: Current perspectives on the effect of hand position on vision
Taking a hands-on approach: Current perspectives on the effect of hand position on vision

Author: Philip Tseng

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 288919664X

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An exciting new line of research that investigates the impact of one’s own hands on visual processing has flourished in the past several years. Specifically, several studies have demonstrated that objects near the hands receive prioritized attention, enhanced perceptual sensitivity, altered figure-ground assignment, prolonged and detail-oriented processing, and improved visual working memory. Taken together, these results demonstrate that the visual system reveals a new pattern of processing when one's hands are in proximity of viewed objects. Therefore, the vast majority of studies on visual processing, in which one's hands are kept away from the stimuli, may constitute but one side of a more complex story of the inner workings of the visual system. With several consistent behavioral demonstrations of hand-altered vision now in the literature, the present challenge facing this growing field, and the aim of this Research Topic, is four-pronged: 1) Isolate and elucidate the underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms of hand-altered vision; 2) Map the parameters and conditions of hand-nearness that permit/prevent the onset or maintenance of hand-altered vision; 3) Determine the consequences of hand-altered vision for higher-level cognition and assess its applied potential (e.g., as a neuropsychological intervention); and, 4) Present a cohesive and predictive theoretical account of hand-altered vision. We welcome submissions that fit into any one (or a combination) of the above domains. For behavioral research, we particularly encourage submissions that are relevant to the advancement of our understanding of the neural mechanisms of hand-altered vision (e.g., demonstrations that might corroborate or disconfirm proposed neural systems).

Far-Right Vanguard
Far-Right Vanguard

Author: John S. Huntington

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2021-10-29

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0812253477

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"An examination of the far-right roots of mid-twentieth-century conservatism"--

Computer Graphics Through OpenGL
Computer Graphics Through OpenGL

Author: Sumanta Guha

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-08-06

Total Pages: 928

ISBN-13: 1482258404

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From geometric primitives to animation to 3D modeling to lighting, shading, and texturing, Computer Graphics Through OpenGL: From Theory to Experiments, Second Edition presents a comprehensive introduction to computer graphics that uses an active learning style to teach key concepts. Equally emphasizing theory and practice, the book provides an und

WebGL Programming Guide
WebGL Programming Guide

Author: Kouichi Matsuda

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 0321902920

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With this book, students will learn step-by-step, through realistic examples, building their skills as they move from simple to complex solutions for building visually appealing web pages and 3D applications with WebGL. Media, 3D graphics, and WebGL pioneers Dr. Kouichi Matsuda and Dr. Rodger Lea offer easy-to-understand tutorials on key aspects of WebGL, plus 100 downloadable sample programs, each demonstrating a specific WebGL topic. Students will move from basic techniques such as rendering, animating, and texturing triangles, all the way to advanced techniques such as fogging, shadowing, shader switching, and displaying 3D models generated by Blender or other authoring tools. This book won't just teach WebGL best practices, it will give a library of code to jumpstart projects.

Brain Dynamics
Brain Dynamics

Author: Erol Başar

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 3642745571

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This volume is based on contributions to the second Brain Dynamics Conference, held in Berlin on August 10-14, 1987, as a satellite conference of the Budapest Congress of the International Brain Research Organization. Like the volume resulting from the first conference, Dynamics of Sensory and Cognitive Processing by the Brain, the present work covers new approaches to brain function, with emphasis on electromagnetic fields, EEG, event-related potentials, connectivistic views, and neural networks. Close attention is also paid to research in the emerging field of deterministic chaos and strange attractors. The diversity of this collection of papers reflects a multipronged advance in a hitherto relatively neglected domain, i. e., the study of signs of dynamic processes in organized neural tissue in order both to explain them and to exploit them for clues to system function. The need is greater than ever for new windows. This volume reflects a historical moment, the moment when a relatively neglected field of basic research into available signs of dynamic processes ongoing in organized neural tissue is expanding almost explosively to complement other approaches. From the topics treated, this book should appeal, as did its predecessor, to neuroscientists, neurologists, scientists studying complex systems, artificial intelligence, and neural networks, psychobiologists, and all basic and clinical investigators concerned with new techniques of monitoring and analyzing the brain's electromagnetic activity.