ExId: Extreme Identities: A Linguistic and Visual Analysis of European Far-Right Online Communities’ Politics of Identity

EXID项目提供了对欧洲极右翼在线环境的全面分析。将尖端计算方法与深入的定性分析相结合，该团队将确定欧洲7个国家和地区存在的许多在线极右翼社区，绘制他们的关系，并说明这些社区如何通过语言和视觉图像使一些社会政治问题突出并构建特定的集体身份(既包括诸如“白人”、“西方文明”或“欧洲”的群体内群体，也包括诸如“穆斯林”、“女权主义者”或“多元文化主义者”等群体外群体)。该主题将对欧洲极右翼在线格局的演变及其语言和视觉内容进行动态分析，探索现实世界事件对网站内容的影响或语言/视觉比喻在群体中的传播等现象。基于其在埃克塞特、都柏林和哥本哈根的合作者的具体但重叠的优势，该项目利用不同的方法来提供对复合的、快速发展的欧洲极右运动的多学科分析。通过三个参与中心之间的密切合作(每个中心都有关于网上极端主义传播的研究记录)，该项目将产生一系列主要出版物、两个新的数据库，并与欧洲政策制定者和国家官员接触。因此，EXID将大大加强我们对NORFACE呼吁中确定的四个挑战的理解：身份和代表性的变化、不断演变的威胁政治、信息民主化和机构权威的变化。

The ExId project offers a comprehensive analysis of the European far-right online landscape. Combiningcutting-edge computational methods with in-depth qualitative analysis, the team will identify the manyonline far-right communities present in and across 7 European countries, map their relationships, andexpose how these communities, through language and visual imagery, make some socio-political issuessalient and construct particular collective identities (both in-groups such as “whites”, “Westerncivilization” or “Europe”, and out-groups such as “Muslims”, “feminists”, or “multiculturalists”). Theteam will offer a dynamic analysis of both the evolution of the European far-right online landscape, andits linguistic and visual content, exploring phenomena such as the impact of real-world events onwebsites’ content or circulation of linguistic/visual tropes across groups. Building on the specific, yetoverlapping strengths of its collaborators in Exeter, Dublin, and Copenhagen, the project draws on diversemethodologies to offer a multidisciplinary analysis of the composite and rapidly moving European farrightmovement. Through close collaboration between the three participating centres (each with a proventrack-record of research on online extremist communications), this project will result in a range ofacademic publications, two new databases, and engagement with European policymakers and stateofficials. ExId will thus significantly enhance our understanding of four of the challenges identified inNORFACE’s call: shifting identities and representation, the evolving politics of threat, thedemocratisation of information, and the changing authority of institutions.