RIGHT-WING POPULISM, INFORMATION, AND KNOWLEDGE

Authors

  • Ronald E. Day

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21728/logeion.2019v5n2.p38-54

Keywords:

new media information. right-wing populism. fascism. democracy

Abstract

‘New media’ information technologies were recently thought to be so intrinsically different from ‘old,’ mass media, technologies that fascism would no longer be possible. Through new media information and communication technologies, the political ‘mass’ was supposedly replaced by the ‘crowd’ or the ‘swarm,’ and an old mass media replaced by a new media serving individual ‘information needs.’ However, extreme right-wing political populism and encroaching fascism today are world-wide phenomena in developed countries, not only despite new media, but partly because of it. How is this possible?

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Author Biography

  • Ronald E. Day
    Professor no Departamento de Informação e Biblioteconomia, Diretor do Programa MLS e chefe do departamento de Ciência da Informação e Biblioteconomia. Pesquisador em filosofia, história, política e cultura da informação, documentação, conhecimento e comunicação nos séculos XX e XXI nos EUA e Europa Ocidental e na disciplina de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação.

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Published

20/03/2019

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2019)

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RIGHT-WING POPULISM, INFORMATION, AND KNOWLEDGE. Logeion: Filosofia da Informação, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, v. 5, n. 2, p. 38–54, 2019. DOI: 10.21728/logeion.2019v5n2.p38-54. Disponível em: https://revista.ibict.br/fiinf/article/view/4646. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.