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Title
A Comparative Approach to Social Media Extreme Speech: Online Hate Speech as Media Commentary |
Full text
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31348/1/Pohjonen_A%20Comparative%20Approach%20to%20Social%20Media%20Extreme%20Speech.pdf |
Date
2019 |
Author(s)
Pohjonen, Matti |
Abstract
By exploring lessons learned from Ethiopia and Finland, this article challenges two assumptions about online hate speech research. First, it challenges the assumption that the best way to understand controversial concepts such as online hate speech is to determine how closely they represent or mirror some underlying set of facts or state of affairs online or in social media. Second, it challenges the assumption that academic research should be seen as separate from the many controversies that surround online hate speech debates globally. In its place, the article proposes the theory of 'commentary' as a comparative research framework aimed at explaining how the messy and complex world of online and social media practices is articulated as hate speech over other ways of imagining this growing problem in global digital media environments. |
Subject(s)
Centre for Global Media and Communications |
Language
en |
Publisher
University of Southern California |
Relation
http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31348/; https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/9110 |
Type of publication
Journal Article; PeerReviewed |
Format
text |
Rights
cc_by_nc_nd_4 |
Identifier
Pohjonen, Matti (2019) 'A Comparative Approach to Social Media Extreme Speech: Online Hate Speech as Media Commentary.' International Journal of Communication, 13. pp. 3088-3103. |
Repository
London - SOAS, University of London
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