Ashley Mattheis

Ashley Mattheis researches online platforms promoting extremist ideologies and divisive practices; particularly through discourses predicated on gendered logics. Her research brings together Cultural and Media Studies, feminist theory, and rhetoric to approach topics such as masculinities and online misogyny in the Manosphere, the linkages between the Manosphere and the Far/Alt-Right, and Alt-Right women’s discourses about negotiating submission and action in extremist groups.

Documenting domestic terrorism in the US: this new dataset exposes the legal response

Finally, there is a dataset documenting response to white supremacist violence in the US.

By M.B. Doty, A. Sin, M. Conley, C. Oh, S. Triana, D. Antonetti and Ashley Mattheis

/ 13 Aug 2020

Documenting domestic terrorism in the US: this new dataset exposes the legal response

Manifesto memes: the radical right’s new dangerous visual rhetorics

These memes frame violent mass murder as sanctified white male dominance and a pathway for disaffected young white men to recover their “proper” masculinity.

By Ashley Mattheis

/ 16 Sep 2019

Manifesto memes: the radical right’s new dangerous visual rhetorics