E1032 - #1032 - Joshua Citarella - The Dark Subcultures of Online Politics

Joshua Citarella is an artist, writer, and cultural researcher focused on internet subcultures and online politics.

We’ve all doom-scrolled our fair share of online politics, some of it funny, some unsettling, and some surprisingly insightful. But which internet subcultures are actually shaping political ideas, how serious are they, and do they truly influence real-world policy?

Expect to learn what’s happening with young people and politics at the moment and why it’s qualitatively different than the past, the weirdest subcultures on the internet that move politics, how online redicalisation actually happens, how internet subcul...