Jack Bratich | Source | Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University School of Co...
Jack Bratich
Jack Z. Bratich is an associate professor in the journalism and media studies department at Rutgers University. He takes a critical approach to the intersection of popular culture and political culture. His work applies autonomist social theory to such topics as craft media, reality television, social movement media, and the cultural politics of secrecy. He is the author of Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture and co-editor of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality. He is currently working on a book on necropolitics and culture called “Deathstyle Fascism.”
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Rutgers University School of Communication and Information (https://comminfo.rutgers.edu)
Professor of Journalism and Media Studies
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Some Social Media Sites Don't Mind Being Home To Misinformation
Far-right groups have turned to online spaces that allow hate speech and other unfavorable content.
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I think there's something bigger going on socially and culturally around these media platforms ... that expands beyond both the financial incentives. This is tied to a kind of development of a kind of Christian nationalism and a desire for a kind of a theocracy in the U.S. People like [Rob] Monster, who owns Epik, have been pretty forthcoming about that.
