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Apocalypse on the net

Extreme Threat and the Majority-Minority Relationship on the Romanian Internet

by Adela Fofiu (Author)
©2013 Thesis 181 Pages

Summary

The apocalypse can bring upon the world either termination, either change. By exploring how emotions, ethnic or national belonging and digital technologies work together in constructing an apocalypticizing national self, this book offers a complex analysis of far rightist apocalyptic narratives. Content analysis performed on the blog of the New Right, a far rightist organization from Romania, unveils a fascinating imaginary of fear and hate toward otherness, of strong beliefs that the world, our world, is ending through its transformation into something else – something that we know and, at the same time, do not know and loath. The social psychology of emotions, belonging and identity, the sociology of globalization and studies on cyberhate are intertwined into the exploration and interpretation of on-line apocalyptic narratives that imagine the Gypsification and Hungarization of Romania and the Islamization of Europe as irreversible change.

Details

Pages
181
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653032628
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631629819
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-03262-8
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (December)
Keywords
Hungarization of Romania Islamization of Europe Gypsification of Romania
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 181 pp., 11 fig. col., 1 fig. b/w

Biographical notes

Adela Fofiu (Author)

Adela Fofiu holds a PhD in sociology from the Babeş-Bolyai University (Romania). She is a founding member of the Romanian Society of Sociologists and is also active in the International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association. The author has been a visiting researcher at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester and continues to develop her research projects within the Institute for Global Studies at the Babeş-Bolyai University.

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