En kartläggning av det högerextrema nätverket på internet – strukturella mönster 2006–2011

[Mapping the right-wing extremist movement on the Internet – structural patterns 2006–2011]Ralph Wiederer’s article analyses the development of the far or extreme right’s social networks on the Internet by examining the connections between different groups’ and activists’ websites through hyperlinks. Wiederer uses social network analysis to study the structure of these associations on both a national and international level. Robots and search engines have automatically generated his data, making production of large amounts of information possible without simultaneous loss of validity. The article gives a brief theoretical and methodological introduction and summarizes the results from at pilot study published in 2007. As a longitudinal continuation these results are compared with how the network structure looked like in 2011. The longitudinal analysis indicates that the far right networks in general are tightly interconnected, both within and between national and ideological clusters.Publication history: A translation of ”Mapping the Right-Wing Extremist Movement on the Internet – Structural Patterns 2006–2011” from the upcoming anthology In the Tracks of Breivik. Far-Right Networks in Northern and Eastern Europe, Michael Minkenberg, Mats Deland & David Payne (eds.), LIT Verlag.(Published 16 September 2013)Citation: Wiederer, Ralf (2013) ”En kartläggning av det högerextrema nätverket på internet – strukturella mönster 2006–2011”, in Det vita fältet II. Samtida forskning om högerextremism, special issue of Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys, issue 2, pp. 101–137. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13068/2000-6217.2.4 ; Ralf Wiederers artikel analyserar utvecklingen hos den extrema högerns nätverk på internet genom att undersöka relationerna mellan olika gruppers och aktivisters webbsidor i form av hyperlänkar. Wiederer tar hjälp av social nätverksanalys för att studera strukturen hos dessa sammanslutningar på både nationell och internationell nivå. Hans data har genererats automatiskt med hjälp av robotar och ...