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How Message Board Culture Remade the Left

from the Jacobite archives, 08.12.2017

Jun 24, 2024
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Robert Mariani, who once upon a time ran an online magazine called Jacobite, gave me permission to re-publish this 2017 piece by James Giuran. Giuran critiques the popular narrative that internet subcultures and nerd communities significantly contributed to the rise of right-wing populism and Trump's electoral victory. Instead, he argues, Internet cultu…

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