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[email protected]: www.peterlang.com Fofiu, Adela Apocalypse on the net Extreme Threat and the Majority-Minority Relationship on the Romanian Internet Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 181 pp., 11 fig. col., 1 fig. b/wEuropean University Studies. Series 22: Sociology. Vol. 451 Print: ISBN 978-3-631-62981-9 pb. (Softcover)SFR 39.00 / €* 33.95 / €** 34.90 / € 31.70 / £ 25.00 / US$ 41.95 Order online: www.peterlang.com Book synopsis The apocalypse can bring upon the world either termination, either change. By exploring how emotions, ethnic or national belonging anddigital technologies work together in constructing an apocalypticizing national self, this book offers a complex analysis of far rightist apocalypticnarratives. Content analysis performed on the blog of the New Right, a far rightist organization from Romania, unveils a fascinating imaginary of fear and hate toward otherness, of strong beliefs that the world, our world, is ending through its transformation into something else – somethingthat we know and, at the same time, do not know and loath. The social psychology of emotions, belonging and identity, the sociology of globalization and studies on cyberhate are intertwined into the exploration and interpretation of on-line apocalyptic narratives that imagine theGypsification and Hungarization of Romania and the Islamization of Europe as irreversible change. Contents Contents: Panic on the web: cyberhate, identity and fear – Cyberhate and Romania's national history – Apocalypticism on the New Right blog –The New Right cyberhate strategies – The spread of the apocalyptic cyberhate – The end is nigh. About the author(s)/editor(s) Adela Fofiu holds a PhD in sociology from the Babeş-Bolyai University (Romania). She is a founding member of the Romanian Society of Sociologists and is also active in the International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association. The author has been a visitingresearcher at the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester and continues to develop her research projectswithin the Institute for Global Studies at the Babeş-Bolyai University.
