White nationalists carry torches on the grounds of the University of Virginia, on the eve of a planned Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, August 11, 2017.Alejandro Alvarez/News2Share via REUTERS Among the plaintiffs is UVA student Natalie Romero, who woke up in the hospital ...
Unite the Right Poster Are the leaders of the infamous “Unite the Right” rally held in Charlottesville, VA on August 12 “white supremacists” or something else? Heather Heyer was brutally killed and many others wounded when a car being driven by James Alex Fields, Jr., a Hitler-loving...
This lens is particularly prominent in fast-moving events, such as conversations and action in political rallies and the use of social media by extremist groups to spread their message. We study the Twitter conversation following the August 2017 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia...
The media frequently describes the 2017 Charlottesville 'Unite the Right' rally as a turning point for the alt-right and white supremacist movements. Related research into social movements also suggests that the media attention and public discourse concerning the rally may have influenced the alt-...
An Imperial Wizard of a Maryland Ku Klux Klan chapter was sentenced to four years in prison by a Virginia judge on Tuesday for firing a gun in a school zone during the 2017 "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville, CNN reports. If not for...
Alex Jones, Roger Stone, and others attempted to make the case that Kessler was an agent provocateur of the left (or the "alt-left") and the violence-plagued rally was a "false flag" operation by George Soros and the so-called "deep state" to discredit the right and foment social ...
Online reactions to the 2017 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville: Measuring polarization in Twitter networks using media followership The present study examined middle school students' responses to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Using a consensual qualitative... JH...
The Trial Over "Unite the Right": With Molly Conger, Robert Evans. We talk with Molly Conger, a Charlottesville journalist, over the ongoing legal battle over the 2017 Unite the Right rally.
Social movement theory suggests that the media attention and public discourse concerning the rally may have engendered changes in social identity performance and visibility of the alt-right, but this has yet to be empirically tested. The presence of the movement on YouTube is of particular interest...
Kessler, organizer of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that descended into violence between rally attendees and counter-protesters, is seen being escorted by state troopers after coming under attack by an angry crowd as he tried to address reporters on Aug. 13, 2017.CBS...