FACULTY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY | Seminar
Quarter-way seminar – Jullietta Stoencheva

In this seminar, PhD student Jullietta Stoencheva presents an extended project plan for her PhD thesis exploring everyday extremism in Sweden and Bulgaria from a media and communications perspective. This PhD project aims to understand how extremist narratives circulate in and between different places and spaces and move across three continuums:

• online-offline;
• mainstream-fringe;
• and local-global.

Using empirical data from fringe and mainstream social media platforms, online forums, and message boards, complemented by ethnographic fieldwork in different localities across Sweden and Bulgaria, the project seeks to assess the nature and scope of extremist narratives in (and about) these countries manifesting through the interplay between online and offline activities, as well as map the ways in which these travel between fringe, radical online communities, transcend into mainstream spaces, and contribute to offline activities and (potentially violent) direct actions in local ecologies.

Discussant: Fredrik Norén