Dr.
KONSTANZE N’GUESSAN
Konstanze N’Guessan is an associated postdoctoral researcher in NoJoke. Her work focuses on far-right humour, drawing on several years of digital-related ethnographic fieldwork on platforms such as YouTube, Twitch, Discord, and Twitter/X, as well as offline fieldwork observing how far-right actors use trolling and meme culture to connect online communities with real-world activism. She is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies in Bochum, where she explores how play and politics intertwine in digital far-right activism, how memes create a sense of belonging and gradually normalize radical ideas, and how dark humour and apocalyptic fantasy fuel radicalization under the guise of entertainment.
Beyond her ongoing pursuit of fascist kittens across the internet, her research interests include nationalism and the nation-state, historiography and memory practices, parenthood and childhood, youth welfare offices and unschoolers, play as epistemic practice and method in ethnology, large language models, ghosts, speculative fiction, and the question of truth in social anthropology.