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景观的全面分析。该团队将尖端的计算方法与深入的定性分析相结合，将识别出7个欧洲国家内的许多在线极右翼社区，绘制他们的关系图，并解释这些社区如何通过语言和视觉图像使一些社会政治问题变得重要，并构建特定的集体身份。（既包括“白人”、“西方文明”或“欧洲”等内群体，也包括“穆斯林”、“女权主义者”或“多元文化主义者”等外群体）。该团队将对欧洲极右翼在线景观的演变及其语言和视觉内容进行动态分析，探索诸如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。在埃克塞特、都柏林和哥本哈根的合作者的具体的、尚未重叠的优势的基础上，该项目借鉴了多种方法论，对复合的、快速发展的欧洲farrightmovement提供了多学科的分析。通过三个参与中心之间的密切合作（每个中心都有关于在线极端主义通信的可靠研究记录），该项目将产生一系列学术出版物、两个新的数据库以及与欧洲决策者和国家官员的接触。因此，ExId将大大提高我们对NORFACE呼吁中确定的四个挑战的理解：不断变化的身份和代表性，不断变化的威胁政治，信息民主化以及不断变化的机构权威。

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.