The CuCo Lab is happy to invite to this month’s lab talk by Greta Jasser (Uni Göttingen) on the mainstreaming of extremist ideologies in the context of ‚let’s play‘ videos.
Abstract: ‘Let’s play extremism’ is an exploratory research project examining the remediation of gaming videos on YouTube and other video streaming platforms, produced and shared by far-right accounts. The investigation aims to shed new light on how video games co-opted by far-right political actors are received, potentially contributing toward greater mainstream engagement with ‘far-right’ – supremacist and exclusivist – political ideals. It also attends to the nexus of YouTube’s commercial imperatives and the platform’s facility for disseminating far-right content.
This talk will also be part of the Focus Europe Events in the Bachelor en Cultures Européennes and begin with a thematic introduction by Catherine Tebaldi & Alistair Plum.
Organisation/contact: Culture & Computation Lab / cucolab@uni.lu.