About
Amy Booth is a Lecturer in the School of Society and Politics at Aston University, specializing in interdisciplinary sociolinguistics with a focus on linguistic identity construction in harmful online communities. Her work bridges criminology, sociology, and digital communication to analyze extremist discourse.
Her academic credentials include:
- PhD in Collective identity and careers in a white nationalist forum from Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics (2020-2023)
- MA from Aston University (2019-2020)
- BA from the University of Oxford (2015-2019)
Booth's research centers on how language fosters group identity in white nationalist forums, employing corpus linguistics and discourse analysis to examine in-group cohesion, keyphrase usage, and identity renegotiation. Her work reveals how linguistic variation sustains ideological boundaries while exposing internal fractures within extremist communities, contributing critical insights to forensic linguistics and online radicalization studies.
Her sole 2023 publication analyzes identity dynamics in white nationalist forums through corpus-based methods, demonstrating how members negotiate belonging amid ideological conflicts. The research establishes connections between linguistic patterns and group fragmentation in digital hate spaces.
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