Hate Cultures in the Digital Age: The Global Conjuncture of
Extreme Speech, by Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone, and Peter
Hervik
Part One: Extreme Speech as a Critique: Power and
Agonism
1. There's no such thing as hate speech and it's a
good thing, too, by David Boromisza-Habashi
2. The political trolling industry in Duterte's Philippines:
Everyday work arrangements of disinformation and extreme speech, by
Jonathan Corpus Ong
3. It is Incivility, not hate speech: Application of Laclau and
Mouffe's discourse theory to analysis of non-anthropocentric
agency, by David Katiambo
4. The moral economy of extreme speech: Resentment and anger in
Indian minority politics, by Max Kramer
Part Two: Colloquialization of Exclusion
5. Us and
(((them))): Extreme memes and anti-Semitism on 4Chan, by Marc
Tuters and Sal Hagen
6. Nationalism in the digital age: Fun as a metapractice of extreme
speech, by Sahana Udupa
7. A presidential archive of lies: Racism, Twitter, and a history
of the present, by Carole McGranahan
8. Racialization, racism and anti-racism in Danish social media
platforms, by Peter Hervik
9. Follow the memes: On the construction of far-right identities
online, by Amy C. Mack
10. The politics of Muhei: Ethnic humor and Islamophobia on Chinese
social media, by Gabriele de Seta
11. Writing on the walls: Discourses on Bolivian immigrants in
Chilean meme humor, by Nell Haynes
Part Three: Organization and Disorganization
12.
Blasphemy accusations as extreme speech acts in Pakistan, by Jürgen
Schaflechner
13. Localized hatred: The importance of physical spaces within the
German far-right online counterpublic on Facebook, by Jonas
Kaiser
14. "Motherhood" revisited: Pushing boundaries in Indonesia's
online discourse, by Indah S. Pratidina
15. Networks of political trolling in Turkey after the
consolidation of power under the Presidency, by Erkan Saka
Contributors' Biographies
Index
Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at LMU Munich where she leads two multiyear projects on digital politics and artificial intelligence funded by the European Research Council. She is author of Making News in Global India; Digital Technology and Extreme Speech: Approaches to Counter Online Hate; and coeditor (with S. McDowell) of Media as Politics in South Asia.
Iginio Gagliardone is a media scholar researching the emergence of distinctive models of the information society in the Global South and Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of The Politics of Technology in Africa; China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet; and Countering Online Hate Speech.
Peter Hervik is an anthropologist and migration scholar affiliated with the Free University of Copenhagen and the Network of Independent Scholars of Education. His publications include The Annoying Difference: The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World.
"Timely, original, and powerful, this anthology is packed with new
insights about digital media and political cultures. Contributors
comprise an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars
grounded predominantly in anthropology and media studies. Their
diverse studies in the global north and south approach extreme
speech online as a cultural practice situated within wider social
struggles. The collection reveals the dynamics of exclusionary
politics that paradoxically thrive in the age of digital
connectivity."—Victoria Bernal, author of Nation as Network:
Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship, Professor of Anthropology,
University of California, Irvine
"This superb collection contains a number of stimulating
contributions by authors from around the world. The introduction
lays out the book's unique intellectual re-reading of online
extreme speech, civility, and rationality. It offers insightful and
innovative ways of understanding these issues from decolonial and
ethnographically grounded approaches. This is the only book to
connect history, colonial formations, and coloniality in the study
of extreme speech in the digital age."—Sarah Chiumbu, Associate
Professor, Department of Communication & Media, University of
Johannesburg
"How is the term 'hate speech' mobilized to further specific
political ends, so deepening rather than alleviating inequalities
in the public domain? This is the question that this highly
sophisticated collection of essays addresses, drawing on a wide
range of cases from Kenya to Chile, the Philippines to Germany.
These deeply contextualized studies constitute a huge step forward
in our understanding of the cultural and technological
underpinnings of extreme speech on a global scale—a landmark
study."—Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political
Science
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