Jordan McSwiney
Jordan McSwiney is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research focuses on the far right and their use of technology, as well as political party organisation and Australian politics. Jordan's research has been published in Information, Communication & Society and the Australian Journal of Political Economy.
Positions at Weizenbaum Institut
Research Fellow
Research Group "Digitalisation and the Transnational Public Sphere"
15 June - 14 September 2020
Projects
Ph.D. thesis + publications on Australian far-right parties, with focus on use of social media for the purposes of party organisation and election campaigning. Also working on project analysing the 'Alt-Tech' movement, an alternative far-right digital support infrastructure.
Publications
McSwiney, J. (Forthcoming). The Australian far right: recruitment and mobilization on Facebook. In, M. Devries, J. Bessant & R. Watts (Eds.), Rise of the far right: Technologies of recruitment and mobilization. Rowman & Littlefield.
McSwiney, J. (2020). Social networks and digital organisation: far right parties at the 2019 Australian federal election. Information, Communication & Society, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1757132
Miscellaneous
Twitter: jordan_mcswiney