Just video games? Understanding the American far-right Radicalization of the GamerGate Community.

• In Event: Polarization, Democracy and Political Violence

Brief Overview

This paper explores the mechanisms and processes that explain how far-right discourses manage to circulate within online communities that, such as the GamerGate community, were not created specifically for sharing extremist rhetoric.

Author

• Victor Bardou-Bourgeois, University of Quebec at Montreal