Analýza on-line sítě české krajní pravice
The network analysis of the Czech far-right on-line network

Summary/Abstract: The authors present basic results of the Czech far-right on-line network analysis carried out in the years 2011 and 2012. The primary objective was to prove the centralized network structure hypothesis; the secondary objective was to prove the presence of the foot-in-the-door technique on the level of a network structure. The 2012 network analysis was used to prove the hypotheses; data from 2011 were used to validate the findings from 2012. The networks consisted of 83 (2012) and 81 (2011) far-right internet sites and weblogs. The final results confirmed the centralized network structure hypothesis. The majority of nodes was linked to the cluster of central nodes with a presupposed high influence in the network. The foot-in-the-door technique was not found on the level of the network structure, however, there are several clusters whose structures correspond to the technique. The study is the first to map the structure of the Czech far-right on-line and its results can be used by future investigations of the relationship between off-line and on-line far-right network structures.

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