Researcher Profile

  • Professor at the University of Melbourne

  • Online anti-publics, with emphases on: Right Wing Extremism ‘Men’s rights’ groups and the ‘manosphere’; Anti-science activism (anti-vax, anti-climate science); Conspiracy discourse; and The ‘culture wars’ and convergence between extremism and mainstream political cultures

  • Online anti-publics, with emphases on: Right Wing Extremism ‘Men’s rights’ groups and the ‘manosphere’; Anti-science activism (anti-vax, anti-climate science); Conspiracy discourse; and The ‘culture wars’ and convergence between extremism and mainstream political cultures

  • Davis, M 2021, ‘The online anti-public sphere’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 143–159.

    Davis, M 2019, ‘Transnationalising the anti-public sphere: Australian anti-publics and extremist online media’, in M Peucker & D Smith (eds), The Far Right in Contemporary Australia, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp. 127–149.

    Davis, M 2019, ‘A new, online culture war? The communication world of Breitbart.com’, Communication, Research and Practice, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 241–254.

    Davis, M 2018, ‘“Globalist war against humanity shifts into high gear”: Online anti-vaccination websites and “anti-public” discourse’, Public Understanding of Science, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 357–371.

    Davis, M 2018, ‘“Culture is inseparable from race”: culture wars from Pat Buchanan to Milo Yiannopoulos’, M/C Journal, vol. 21, no. 5, accessed December 30, 2018, from <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/1484

  • Social Network Analysis And Network Disruption; Social Influence – Micro, Meso And Macro Level; Disinformation And Social Cohesion; Radicalisation And Extremism The Changing Character Of Competition And Conflict In The Indo-Pacific


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    Email Address davismr@unimelb.edu.au

 

Mark Davis

Overview

Mark Davis is Professor of Publishing and Communications and Head of the Media and Communications program at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he researches the impact of networked digital media on public culture. His main areas of focus are online anti-publics, the ‘culture wars’ and the platformisation of extremism, including the activities of white supremacists, ‘men’s rights’ activists, anti-climate science activists, and anti-vaxxers, with an emphasis on the convergence between extremism and mainstream political discourse in the west. He also researches the impact of digital media on cultural industries and the platformisation of culture more generally, with emphases on digital platforms in China and the west.