Let’s Play Extremism: Analysing Trends and Identifying Gaps in the Study of Far-Right Gaming Videos
Let’s Play Extremism: Analysing Trends and Identifying Gaps in the Study of Far-Right Gaming Videos
Imogen Richards Morgan Pinder Cam Smith Helen Young a Criminology Department, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australiab School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Melbourne, AustraliaImogen Richards is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University. Her research examines the political economy of political violence, far-right social movements, and the mediatisation of violence and its dynamics.Morgan Pinder is a PhD candidate in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. Their research focuses on video games and the ecogothic, with broader interests in twentieth- and twenty-first-century gothic literature, including queer, female and postcolonial gothic.Cam Smith is a research fellow at Deakin University. His research examines political violence and the media, news reporting on the far right, and far-right political groupings and organisations in Australia.Helen Young is an Associate Professor in the Writing, Literature and Culture Group, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. Helen’s research addresses medievalism, popular culture (especially fantasy, video games and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien), histories of race and racism, and cultures of extremism.