Phillip Stenmann Baun is a PhD fellow from Aarhus University, Department of Global Studies. In his main doctoral research project, he explores far-right digital memory practices, combining insights from far-right studies, memory studies, and digital humanities. Gathering data from 4chan’s /pol/ forum from 2013 to 2022, Phillip analyses how memories of the past are radically mobilized in response to users’ estrangement to contemporary society. Employing a combination of machine learning, quantitative statistics, and interpretative readings, the project bridges disciplinary gaps in order to better understand the ever-evolving culture of online extremist communities. Phillip has previously published work on the nexus between terrorism and history, how the war in Ukraine is being contested by the far-right, as well as how digital methods can be used to study memory.

Daniel Bach is a Ph.D. researcher at Roskilde University, Department of Communication and Arts and the Roskilde University Interdisciplinary Centre for Big Data, where he studies the worldviews and ontologies of online subcultures with a specific interest in the intersection between ethnographic and digital research methods. His Ph.D. research focuses on how right-wing extremist communities form on the 4chan imageboard and how the site’s specific affordances of anonymity and ephemerality play a role in shaping collective relations. This research comes from a mixed methods approach based equally on ethnographic embeddedness and large-scale data analysis techniques. With a background in Techno-Anthropology and a focus on media studies and STS, his research interests are related to the workings of the social internet from a socio-technical viewpoint.