For Digital Dignity

Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech
can be fully downloaded here:
https://publish.iupress.indiana.edu/projects/digital-hate

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.

Digital Hate | Open Indiana | Indiana University Press 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 d...

We’ve recently published episode 16 of Online Gods.

In the meantime we’re really excited to announce a new partnership with EPW Engage. An online initiative of Economic and Political Weekly, EPW Engage is a really wonderful fit for the Online Gods. Not only do they explore the digital as a medium for publishing (as we do), but also as an enabler of new methodologies and conceptual explorations (again, as we do). EPW Engage are going to be republishing the entire first season of Online Gods and, when we meet to plan the new season, we’ll do so with them in mind.

http://www.fordigitaldignity.com/onlinegods/

Podcast: Online Gods - For Digital Dignity