Unveiling the Transnational and Digital Metapolitics of the New Right: Insights from EAJS ConferenceOur research group presented the latest findings of the ongoing research at the EAJS conference held at Ghent University from August 17 to 20, 2023. The findings were presented at the panel titled “The transnational and digital metapolitics of the New Right”. […]
Prof. Dr. Masaaki Ito received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 2010 and is a professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Seikei University in Japan. His books in Japanese include “Flashmobs” (2011), “Media Studies of Demonstrations” (2012), “The Historical Sociology of the Internet Right” (2019), and “Considering the Flaming Society” (2022).
Over the past few years, the world has witnessed an apparent increase in ostensibly decentralized right-wing terrorist attacks by individuals who appear to act solely on their own behalf (i.e. without receiving instructions or material support from specific terrorist organizations). In response, criminologists have coined the term “lone wolf terrorism” for this strand of terrorism. […]
Japan’s pre-emptive approach to far-right demonstrations has had a significant impact. Far-right street protests accompanied by hate speech have been rapidly decreasing, although Japan has not introduced penalties. Why did the Japanese approach have such an effect? While the regulation of hate speech in Japan has been discussed mainly in legal studies, Japan’s use of […]
In this comparative research project we study different instances of political populism as a “thin ideology” (Mudde/Kaltwasser) in its respective ideological proximity to right-wing discourses in Japan and Germany from a discourse-analytical perspective.
Attitudes and opinions towards nuclear power and renewable energy and the emergence of a transnational algorithmic public sphere (2017-2019)
This research project applies innovative corpus-linguistic methods to analyse the use and distribution of typical linguistic patterns of conspiracy theories and study the discursive strategies they share with right-wing populist and extremist discourses.
Abstract: Social media platforms such as Twitter have gained tremendous political importance in recent years. Moreover, being considered as platforms for organizing grass root political movements or political participation in general, this positive view has given way to more critical perspectives on the negative sides of social media, such as attempts of algorithmically manipulating public […]
Löschke, Ayaka (2021): A victims’ movement against the termination of housing support for voluntary evacuees. In Japan Forum, 33:2, 189-212, DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2018.1552309
Schäfer, Fabian with Higuchi Naoto; Nagayoshi Kikuko; Matsutani Mitsuru; Kurahashi Kōhei; Yamaguchi Tomomi (2019): ネット右翼とは何か (Was ist die Internet-Rechte?). Tōkyō: Seikyū-sha.
Interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt an der Univerisät Erlangen-Nürnberg: Exploring the “Fukushima Effect” (EFE)Beteiligung: Informatik, Japanologie, Kommunikationswissenschaft und KorpuslinguisitikDie Digitalisierung der Gesellschaft und der Mediensysteme hat immense Auswirkungen auf (politische) Meinungsbildung und Diskurse. Dieses Projekt widmet sich der Untersuchung eines komplexen Phänomens, das im Zeitalter globalisierter Massenmedien und einer nationale Grenzen überschreitenden Konnektivität in den Sozialen Medien entstanden […]