The role of digital technologies in mobilizing the alt-right

(University of Chicago Press Journals) In 'Misogynistic Men Online: How the Red Pill Helped Elect Trump,' published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Pierce Alexander Dignam and Deana A. Rohlinger examine the transformation of online alt-right forums from marginal spaces of misogynistic collective identity to sites of political mobilization. Dignam and Rohlinger focus on one of these semianonymous forums, the Red Pill, to elucidate the increasing salience of online discourse and the centrality of misogyny and antifeminism in the 2016 campaign and election results.
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