Yeah Nah Pasaran! #201 w Chris Wilson on the Christchurch terrorist, Australia & 4chan : March 28, 2024

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Chris Wilson [X/Twitter]. Chris is the co-founder and director of Hate & Extremism Insights Aotearoa (HEIA) and a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland. Along with his colleagues Ethan Renner, Jack Smylie and Michal Dziwulski, Chris has been researching the online activity of the Australian convicted of conducting the terrorist attacks on mosques in Christchurch on March 15, 2019. The fifth anniversary of the murderous assaults received little to no attention in Australian media and politics but it remains an important event, and Chris & Co. maintain that through ‘placing his online posting against his other online and offline activities, we gain a far more complete picture of the path to his attack’; further, it’s critical to appreciate that ‘his online community played a role in his radicalisation’.

See : Christchurch attacks 5 years on: terrorist’s online history gives clues to preventing future atrocities, The Conversation, March 14, 2024 /// Christchurch terrorist discussed attacks online a year before carrying them out, new research reveals, The Conversation, February 21, 2024 /// The road to March 15: ‘networked white rage’ and the Christchurch terror attacks, Paul Spoonley and Paul Morris, The Conversation, March 10, 2023 /// Neo-Nazis Use Discord Chats to Promote New Zealand Copycat Shootings, Chris Schiano, Unicorn Riot, May 10, 2019 | Rehabilitating fascists : Lauren Southern, Sky News & Media Diversity (September 22, 2020) | Fascists Among Us: online hate and the Christchurch massacre, Jeff Sparrow (Scribe 2019) /// Jeff Sparrow on Fascists Among Us, Yeah Nah Pasaran!, 3CR, January 16, 2020.

4.30pm, Thursday, March 28, 2024 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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