Jordan McSwiney is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. He completed his PhD at The University of Sydney in 2021.

Jordan’s research focuses on the far right, with a particular focus on their communication and organisation. His work has been published in Information, Communication & Society, New Media & Society, and Patterns of Prejudice, among others.

At the Centre, Jordan is working on the project ‘Democratic Resilience: The Public Sphere and Extremist Attacks’ (Discovery Project, funded by Australian Research Council, 2021-24)

Key Publications

• McSwiney, J. (Forthcoming). Far-right political parties in Australia: Disorganisation and electoral failure. Routledge.

  
  

• McSwiney, J., & Sengul, K. (2023). Humour, ridicule, and the far right: Mainstreaming exclusion through online animation. Television and New Media. E-pub ahead of print.

  
  

• Jasser, G., McSwiney, J., Pertwee, E., & Zannettou, S. (2023). ‘Welcome to #GabFam’: Far-right virtual community on Gab. New Media & Society, 25(7), 1728–1745.

  
  

• Maher, H., Gunaydin, E., & McSwiney, J. (2022). Western civilizationism and white supremacy: The Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. Patterns of Prejudice, 55(4), 309-330.

  
  

• McSwiney, J., Vaughan, M. Heft, A., & Hoffman., M. (2021). Sharing the hate? Memes and transnationality in the far right’s digital visual culture. Information, Communication & Society, 24(16) 2502-2521.

A full list of Jordan McSwiney’s publications is available here.

Public Engagement

• Why it’s so hard to stop neo-Nazi public hate parades. The Age. 2023, November 12.

• Jenna Price: How do we stop misinformation spreading online? The Canberra Times. 2022, December 16.

• Far-right groups targeting young people, inquiry finds. The Age. 2022, August 30.

• Right-wing parties line up for make-or-break Victorian state election. The New Daily. 2022, 22 June.

• Dr Jordan McSwiney on One Nation & Western Civilisation. Yeah Nah Pasaran! 2022, 9 June.

• Labor and the Liberals are waging an election meme war – but what is the point? The Guardian. 2022, May 1.

Visiting Appointments

• 2023 - Visiting Fellow. Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo, Norway.

  
  

• 2020 - Research Fellow, Digitalisation and the Transnational Public Sphere, Wizenbaum Institute, Berlin, Germany

  
  

• 2019 - Doctoral Fellow, WZB Berlin, Berlin, Germany