From Eccentricity to Extremism: Understanding the Anti-Covid-19 Movement as Countercultural Hybrid Media Activism

从极端主义到极端主义：将反COVID-19运动理解为反文化混合媒体活动反COVID-19运动提出了一个复杂和被低估的极端主义威胁，尚未通过亚文化理论以建设性的方式进行批判性分析，也没有在威尔士/英国的背景下进行分析。通过研究这场运动，它如何构建和占用在线叙事，以及如何将其转化为离线行为组织，该提案旨在利用这些见解来生成理论框架，以新的方式理解反新冠病毒文化。它将建立在即将进行的研究（Anthony 2022）的基础上，描述在线反新冠病毒行动主义的一个新方面。后社交媒体时代，在线反疫苗意识形态正在通过建立独立网站与其他社会运动结盟，劫持伴随的叙述，从而扩大在线影响力。即将进行的工作面临着时间和资源的限制，排除了有价值的离线社会学和人种学研究。

From Eccentricity to Extremism: Understanding the Anti-Covid-19 Movement as Countercultural Hybrid Media ActivismAnti-Covid-19 activism presents a complex and underestimated extremist threat, not yet critically analysed via subcultural theory in a constructive way, nor within a Welsh/UK context. By examining this movement, how it constructs and appropriates online narratives, and how this translates into behavioural organisation offline, this proposal seeks to use these insights to generate theoretical frameworks towards understanding anti-covid culture in new ways.It would build on forthcoming research (Anthony 2022) describing a novel aspect of online anti-covid activism. Post social media, online antivaccine ideology is aligning itself with other social movements by building independent websites that hijack concomitant narratives, resulting in greater online reach. The forthcoming work faces time and resource constraints that preclude valuable offline sociological and ethnographic study.