My paper has won an award less than 12 hours after it was published, albeit only “provisionally”. Must be these nice cardiology people again. I’ll spend the rest of the day feeling eminent.
Research note on the Radical Right Research Robot
Social media bots: often annoying, sometimes useful. In this open access research note in PRX, I tell the origin story of @RRResRobot 👀 🤖, which you absolutely want to follow. What does @RRResRobot do (and why?), what has it achieved, how can it survive post-Musk? And how can 𝘺𝘰𝘶 build your own bot for 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 epistemic community? Find the answers here
4 German far-right links I kind of liked
False moderation, failed plots, restoring the axis: these guys are keeping busy.
Why are there so many fake news site in the world?
More than a dozen scraper sites stole a Guardian article and linked it to my site. Why? I have no idea.
There is no ‘hard right’, AI slop is actually good but AI is terrible, and why democracies need enemies: 4 links I liked
Definitions! The Plagiarism Machine (twice!)!! Democracy and its enemies!!!
An enduring anti-fascist legacy in Italy
I am normally rather sceptical of historical explanations for far-right mobilisation and counter-mobilisation, but this podcast episode from The Conversation is very nuanced and quite convincing: 24 minutes of your time well spent. https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/86c1fdc7-dc5c-44b5-a86c-72eed7fb3190.mp3
Podcast Wehrhafte Demokratie
Mit Lawrence Meinig habe ich für den Forschungspodcast der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität über wehrhafte Demokratie, Rechtsextremismus, Islamismus und die Polizei gesprochen. Die Episode kann man sich direkt hier anhören oder unten im Transkript nachlesen EinleitungRechtsextremismus, Rechtsradikalismus, RechtspopulismusRegionale UnterschiedePolizeiforschungAndere Gefahren für die Demokratie: Linksextremismus, Islamismus, Reichsbürgerbewegung Einleitung Lawrence Meinig Demokratie bedeutet Vielfalt, Offenheit und auch Meinungsverschiedenheit. Doch…
Misogynistic manifestos, wolves not voting for the AfD, Meta is evil, and the hidden costs of “purity”: four links I liked
Karmvir Padda is a sociologist at the University of Waterloo. For her PhD research, she has analysed numerous manifestos written by men who perpetrated violent attacks motivated by their political or religious views. A large chunk of them rationalise violence that is explicitly directed against women. https://theconversation.com/i-analyzed-more-than-100-extremist-manifestos-misogyny-was-the-common-thread-259347 Back in 2022, two colleagues published a research…
Islamophobia in Western Europe is linked to far right Attitudes, not religiosity: new research
New publication: In Western Europe, Islamophobia overlaps with far right attitudes, but is unrelated to religiosity. This is consistent with the “Christianist” strategy employed by many far right actors in the region.
The machine is still stupid, most of the time
Choose one:
a) This is reassuring, because our algorithmic overlords are still mostly quite stupid, or b) they are lulling us into a false sense of security until it is too late?
I lean towards b), because this was shown to me on RG, a site that makes it its actual business to know exactly what I write about and in which outlets I publish.