Month: September 2025
"Gaming" History: IAS Research Development Project Outcomes
Presented with Ladan Cockshut at Game Studies: Now, Next, North East, Durham University, 26 September 2025.Read more...
'Whither "Fascism"? Fascist Studies in the Digital Age'Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies 14 (1), 5-37 (co-written with Paul Jackson).
In this editorial essay, the authors suggest that scholars of fascism can profitably pay greater attention to internet activism, digital subcultures, and online content, calling for a digital turn in the field of comparative fascist studies: ‘Fascism Studies 2.0’. The essay stresses the importance of the internet in promoting contemporary forms of fascism and far-right activism, exploring two case studies: the "gamification of terrorism" in online gaming cultures, and militant accelerationist cultures on Terrorgram.Read more...