"Trolls for Trump", virtual rape, fake news — social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has become a formidable, yet elusive, political force. What characterizes online vitriol? How do we understand the narratives generated, and also address their real-world — even life-and-death — impact? How can hatred, bullying, and dehumanization on social media platforms be addressed and countered in a post-truth world? This book unpicks discourses, metaphors, media dynamics, and framing on social media, to begin to answer these questions. Written for and by cultural and media studies scholars, journalists, political philosophers, digital communication professionals, activists and advocates, this book makes the connections between theoretical approaches from cultural and media studies and practical challenges and experiences "from the field", providing insight into a rough media landscape.
Author(s): Polak, Sara; Trottier, Daniel
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
City: Amsterdam
Tags: social media, hate speech, trolling, online violence
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introducing Online Vitriol
Sara Polak and Daniel Trottier
Dynamics of Online Vitriol
1. Mediated Visibility as Making Vitriol Meaningful
Daniel Trottier, Qian Huang and Rashid Gabdulhakov
2. ‘Don’t Feed the Trolls’
Social Media and the Limits of Free Speech
Tom Clucas
3. ‘#Unpresidented’
The Making of The First Twitter President
Sara Polak
Histories of Online Vitriol
4. Historical Prefigurations of Vitriol
Communities, Constituencies and Plutocratic Insurgency
Frans-Willem Korsten
5. White Femininity and Trolling
Historicizing Some Visual Strategies of Today’s Far Right
Ewelina Pepiak
6. The Case of Telefilm De Punt’s Online Discussion Forum
Participatory Space for Societal Debate or Echo Chamber for the Polemical Few?
Gerlov van Engelenhoven
Affects of Online Vitriol
7. Love and Hate Online
Affective Politics in the Era of Trump
Greta Olson
8. Satire and Affect
The Case of Stefanie Sargnagel in Austria
Ann-Marie Riesner
9. Ethical Implications of Onlife Vitriol
Katleen Gabriels and Marjolein Lanzing
Activism and Online Vitriol
10. ‘I Wasn’t Chastised Properly’
On Trolls and Misogyny
Sophie Schwarz
11. r/ChokeABitch
Feminist Tactics Against Hate Speech in Capitalist Social Media Platforms
Penelope Kemekenidou
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