The aim of the report is to determine the overlaps apparent in the far-right scene on Twitter. Specifically, to ascertain the extent to which different groups within the scene are indeed talking about the same issues in the same way, in spite of apparent differences in tone and underlying ideologies. The authors utilise a mixed-methods approach: first, gaining a cursory insight into the extreme right-wing scene on Twitter across Europe; and then applying a detailed frame analysis to three selected groups (identified as extreme right, radical populist right, and a manifestation of the New Right) in Germany to determine the implicit and explicit overlaps between them. Thus, complementing the quantitative findings to offer an in-depth analysis of meaning of the overlaps found therein. The findings challenge the traditional separation within the far-right spectrum, and potentially have deeper theoretical and methodological implications for how we study the far right.
The presentation is available on YouTube.