“It happened in brazil too”: the radical right’s capture of networks of hope

Introduction “It happened in brazil too”. This is how, rather emphatically, Manuel Castells begins his afterword to the Brazilian edition of his book, “Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age”, first published in 2013. Even if explicitly uncertain of the possible results of that year’s demonstrations occurring in Brazil, the sociologist identifies digital networks as creating autonomy and providing a path from individuals’ hope to outrage. In that moment, a mass of ...