Nathan Worku
Biographic Data
| ID | 4266543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Worku |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Worku |
| SIGNATURE | WORKU N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1325-7230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Canadian Far-Right and Conspiracy Theories
This book provides an empirical analysis, mapping, and assessment of Canadian right‐wing extremist (RWE) groups and their conspiracy theories. While the majority of studies on RWE groups focus on American and European actors, this book critically examines conspiracies disseminated by Canadian actors on different online sites and social media platforms. The authors deploy a mapping metaphor to chart the conspiratorial ideas that RWE groups create …
Hate Influencers' Mediation of Hate on Telegram: We Declare War Against the Anti-White System
Hate influencers play a critical role in platforming hate. In this article, we illustrate how visible (forward-facing) and invisible (faceless) hate influencers mobilize far-right hate groups in the mobile socio-sphere. Based on our digital multimodal walkthrough method and multimodal discourse analysis, we analyze 16 Telegram channels for two designated hate groups. We focus our analysis on Proud Boys content related to the 6 January attack on C…
How Google Autocomplete Algorithms about Conspiracy Theorists Mislead the Public
Introduction: Google Autocomplete Algorithms Despite recent attention to the impact of social media platforms on political discourse and public opinion, most people locate their news on search engines (Robertson et al.). When a user conducts a search, millions of outputs, in the form of videos, images, articles, and Websites are sorted to present the most relevant search predictions. Google, the most dominant search engine in the world, expanded …
Hate Influencers' Mediation of Hate on Telegram: We Declare War Against the Anti-White System
Hate influencers play a critical role in platforming hate. In this article, we illustrate how visible (forward-facing) and invisible (faceless) hate influencers mobilize far-right hate groups in the mobile socio-sphere. Based on our digital multimodal walkthrough method and multimodal discourse analysis, we analyze 16 Telegram channels for two designated hate groups. We focus our analysis on Proud Boys content related to the 6 January attack on C…
How Google Autocomplete Algorithms about Conspiracy Theorists Mislead the Public
Introduction: Google Autocomplete Algorithms Despite recent attention to the impact of social media platforms on political discourse and public opinion, most people locate their news on search engines (Robertson et al.). When a user conducts a search, millions of outputs, in the form of videos, images, articles, and Websites are sorted to present the most relevant search predictions. Google, the most dominant search engine in the world, expanded …
Hate Influencers' Mediation of Hate on Telegram: We Declare War Against the Anti-White System
Hate influencers play a critical role in platforming hate. In this article, we illustrate how visible (forward-facing) and invisible (faceless) hate influencers mobilize far-right hate groups in the mobile socio-sphere. Based on our digital multimodal walkthrough method and multimodal discourse analysis, we analyze 16 Telegram channels for two designated hate groups. We focus our analysis on Proud Boys content related to the 6 January attack on C…
The Canadian Far-Right and Conspiracy Theories
This book provides an empirical analysis, mapping, and assessment of Canadian right‐wing extremist (RWE) groups and their conspiracy theories. While the majority of studies on RWE groups focus on American and European actors, this book critically examines conspiracies disseminated by Canadian actors on different online sites and social media platforms. The authors deploy a mapping metaphor to chart the conspiratorial ideas that RWE groups create …
Political science (3 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Algorithm (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (1 works) · Data mining (1 works)