[Air-L] FW: IJoC Publishes a Special Section on Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures

[sahana udupa]

Dear all,
A special IJoC section on online extreme speech is just published.
Apologies for cross-posting.



On 18.07.19, 02:20, "Arlene Luck" <aluck at usc.edu> wrote:

    International Journal of Communication
    Publishes a Special Section on
    Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures

    Why is there so much hate on social media? How dangerous is online
vitriol
    for politics and society? Can there be a universal definition of hate
    speech?

    Edited by Sahana Udupa (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität LMU Munich,
Germany)
    and Matti Pohjonen (School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS, UK),
this
    Special Section on  Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures advances
    these questions by introducing the concept of “extreme speech” as a
    critical ethnographic intervention into heated scholarly debates around
    disinformation, online extremism and hateful communication online.

    It brings together nine leading scholars researching online vitriol as
    situated speech cultures, focusing on the actual rather than abstract
    conditions of possibility for action against it. By taking a distinctly
    global perspective honed by ethnographic sensibility to broader
histories of
    difference and exclusion, the special section moves the debate beyond
    legal-normative approaches dominant in North America and Europe, and
moral
    panics around fake news and filter bubbles. It foregrounds the different
    ways online vitriol is entangled with, and has come to significantly
shape,
    the cultural, social and political fabric of vastly diverse world
regions:
    from Chile, Denmark and Syria to the U.S., Ethiopia, India and Myanmar.
    Ethnographic explorations of online “extreme speech” open up a new
    ground to critique the contemporary global conjuncture of exclusionary
    politics.

    We invite you to read this new Special Section of 10 articles that
published
    in the International Journal of Communication on July 10, 2019. Please
go to
    ijoc.org to access these newly published papers.

    _____________________________________________________

    Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures — Introduction
    Sahana Udupa, Matti Pohjonen

    Defining Online Hate and Its “Public Lives”:  What is the Place for
    “Extreme Speech”?
    Iginio Gagliardone
    A Comparative Approach to Social Media Extreme Speech: Online Hate
Speech as
    Media Commentary
    Matti Pohjonen

    Ritualized Opposition in Danish Online Practices of Extremist Language
and
    Thought
    Peter Hervik

    Writing on the Walls: Discourses on Bolivian Immigrants in Chilean Meme
    Humor
    Nell Haynes

    Nationalism in the Digital Age: Fun as a Metapractice of Extreme Speech
    Sahana Udupa

    A Presidential Archive of Lies: Racism, Twitter, and a History of the
    Present
    Carole McGranahan

    The Digital Traces of #whitegenocide and Alt-Right Affective Economies
of
    Transgression
    Alexandra Deem

    Extreme Speech in Myanmar: The Role of State Media in the Rohingya
Forced
    Migration Crisis
    Ronan Lee

    An Archetypal Digital Witness: The Child Figure and the Media Conflict
over
    Syria
    Omar Al-Ghazzi
    _____________________________________________________

    Larry Gross
    Editor

    Arlene Luck
    Managing Editor

    Sahana Udupa, Matti Pohjonen
    Guest Editors
    ___________________________________________________
    International Journal of Communication (IJoC)
    USC Annenberg Press
    University of Southern California
    http://ijoc.org/