ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book proposes an analysis of the extreme right political activism with the Internet using a theoretical framework combining insights from research on political mobilization and social movements, on the one hand, and media and political communications research, on the other. It enters into this debate by investigating an object of study thus far rarely explored in the literature on civil society organizations and information communication technologies (ICT): the use of the Web by radical organizations. The book investigates to what extent the different structural configurations of the extreme right that emerged in the different countries are reflected in differences in the strategic use of the Internet by right-wing organizations. It looks at the degree and forms of the recent evolution of the right-wing mobilization out of the Web and its characteristics,.
