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Social media, populists, and organised crime in Naples
Social media serves populist political movements undermining the institutional life of democracies. In the urban peripheries of Naples, Southern Italy, the far-right movement and organised crime employ online social media to influence poor citizens and establish relationships with them based on political patronage. This raises several questions including, how do legal and criminal processes for digital networking work together in advancing populist policies among low-income citizens? How do they impact their socio-cultural lives in terms of political mobilisation and what public policies and social interventions could challenge them? The EU-funded Scar-Facebook project will address these questions by providing ethnographic knowledge on the informal dynamics of digital mediation co-involving organised crime, populist institutional operators, and their public in Naples. |
