The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale. Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary perspective on hateful language online. Moving beyond Euro-American allegations of "fake news," contributors draw attention to local idioms and practices and explore the profound implications for how community is imagined, enacted, and brutally enforced around the world. With a cross-cultural framework nuanced by ethnography and field-based research, the volume investigates a wide range of cases—from anti-immigrant memes targeted at Bolivians in Chile to trolls serving the ruling AK Party in Turkey—to ask how the potential of extreme speech to talk back to authorities has come under attack by diverse forms of digital hate cultures. Offering a much-needed global perspective on the "dark side" of the internet, Digital Hate is a timely and critical look at the raging debates around online media's failed promises.
Author(s): Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone, Peter Hervik
Edition: 1
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 2021
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 277
Tags: Online Hate Speech; Internet: Moral And Ethical Aspects; Internet: Social Aspects; Discrimination; Other (Philosophy): Social Aspects; Online Identities; Online social Networks
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hate Cultures in the Digital Age: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech / Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone, and Peter Hervik
Part 1. Extreme Speech as Critique—Power and Agonism
1. There’s No Such Thing as Hate Speech and It’s a Good Thing, Too / David Boromisza-Habashi
2. The Political Trolling Industry in Duterte’s Philippines: Everyday Work Arrangements of Disinformation and Extreme Speech / Jonathan Corpus Ong
3. It’s Incivility, Not Hate Speech: Application of Laclau and Mouffe’s Discourse Theory to Analysis of Nonanthropocentric Agency / David Katiambo
4. The Moral Economy of Extreme Speech: Resentment and Anger in Indian Minority Politics / Max Kramer
Part 2. Colloquialization of Exclusion
5. Us and (((Them))): Extreme Memes and Antisemitism on 4chan / Marc Tuters and Sal Hagen
6. Nationalism in the Digital Age: Fun as a Metapractice of Extreme Speech / Sahana Udupa
7. A Presidential Archive of Lies: Racism, Twitter, and a History of the Present / Carole McGranahan
8. Racialization, Racism, and Antiracism in Danish Social Media Platforms / Peter Hervik
9. Follow the Memes: On the Construction of Far-Right Identities Online / Amy C. Mack
10. The Politics of Muhei: Ethnic Humor and Islamophobia on Chinese Social Media / Gabriele de Seta
11. Writing on the Walls: Discourses on Bolivian Immigrants in Chilean Meme Humor / Nell Haynes
Part 3. Organization and Disorganization
12. Blasphemy Accusations as Extreme Speech Acts in Pakistan / Jürgen Schaflechner
13. Localized Hatred: The Importance of Physical Spaces within the German Far-Right Online Counterpublic on Facebook / Jonas Kaiser
14. “Motherhood” Revisited: Pushing Boundaries in Indonesia’s Online Political Discourse / Indah S. Pratidina
15. Networks of Political Trolling in Turkey after the Consolidation of Power under the Presidency / Erkan Saka
Contributor Biographies
Index
