{"id":161,"date":"2022-02-18T15:58:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/populistpublics\/?p=161"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:12:08","slug":"platform-multiverse-discontent-and-disconnection-among-alt-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/populistpublics\/2022\/platform-multiverse-discontent-and-disconnection-among-alt-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Platform Multiverse: Discontent and Disconnection among Alt-Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Platform Multiverse: Discontent and Disconnection among Alt-Rights\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>On February 16, 2022, Populist Publics Co-investigator, Dr. Sandra Robinson, has published \u2018Platform Multiverse: Discontent and Disconnection among Alt-Rights\u2019 in the <i>Canadian Journal of Communication<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article explores the \u2018platform multiverse\u2019 whereby groups and individuals, ideas, and discourses move across and between social platforms to avoid detection, suspension, and moderation. This study examines&nbsp;<i>disconnection practice<\/i>&nbsp;among alt-rights as part of an&nbsp;<i>affiliative assemblage<\/i>&nbsp;that extends across multiple platforms and works to orient the disconnected toward reconnection. Tracing this alt-right multiverse and the spatial and temporal intensities of disconnection practice exposes the discourses, habits, and interactions of alt-rights across new social platforms. doi:<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.22230\/cjc.2022v47n1a4157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">10.22230\/cjc.2022v47n1a4157<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"fr\">Cet article explore le multivers de la plate-forme des droits alternatifs par lequel des groupes et des individus, des id\u00e9es et des discours, se d\u00e9placent \u00e0 travers et entre les plates-formes sociales pour \u00e9viter la d\u00e9tection, la suspension et la mod\u00e9ration. Cette \u00e9tude examine la pratique de la d\u00e9connexion parmi des droits alternatifs dans le cadre d\u2019un assemblage d\u2019affiliation qui s\u2019\u00e9tend sur plusieurs plates-formes et travaille \u00e0 orienter les d\u00e9connect\u00e9s vers la reconnexion. Tracer ce multivers des droits alternatifs et les intensit\u00e9s spatiales et temporelles de la pratique de d\u00e9connexion expose les discours, les habitudes et les interactions des droits alternatifs sur de nouvelles plateformes sociales. doi:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.22230\/cjc.2022v47n1a4157\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\"><span lang=\"fr\">10.22230\/cjc.2022v47n1a4157<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 16, 2022, Populist Publics Co-investigator, Dr. Sandra Robinson, has published \u2018Platform Multiverse: Discontent and Disconnection among Alt-Rights\u2019 in the Canadian Journal of Communication. The article explores the \u2018platform multiverse\u2019 whereby groups and individuals, ideas, and discourses move across and between social platforms to avoid detection, suspension, and moderation. 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