Organize and Fight (Online): Assessing the Discursive Extremism of Anti-Lockdown Groups in Australia
Organize and Fight (Online): Assessing the Discursive Extremism of Anti-Lockdown Groups in Australia
Philip Pond Callum Jones Kim Doyle a School of Culture and Communications, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australiab School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, AustraliaPhilip Pond is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He specialises in the study of software systems and their influence on the production of time and meaning. He has written two books. Complexity, Digital Media and Post Truth Politics (2020) proposes a framework for studying interaction between the digital and political systems and argues that polarisation and misinformation are the logical products of that interaction. Digital Media and the Making of Network Temporality (2021) looks at the relationship between mathematical “scientific” time and intuitive social time.Callum Jones is a researcher and PhD candidate at Monash University whose research focuses on political extremism, particularly the networks and discursive strategies of radicalised groups and the violence they produce. His wider research focus extends to other ideological groups, including religious extremists and members of the Manosphere, as well as different forms of organised cybercrime.Kim Doyle is a Research Data Specialist at the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform and an Arts PhD student in the School of Culture and Communications at The University of Melbourne. Her thesis focuses on social media use during the 2019 Australian federal election.