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Extreme speech
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Challenges and perspectives of hate speech research
Abstract
Extreme speech is a critical conceptual framework that aims to uncover vitriolic online cultures through comparative and ethnographic excavations of digital practices. It is not one more new definition or a term replaceable with extremist speech. Rather, it is a conceptual framework developed to for... view more
Extreme speech is a critical conceptual framework that aims to uncover vitriolic online cultures through comparative and ethnographic excavations of digital practices. It is not one more new definition or a term replaceable with extremist speech. Rather, it is a conceptual framework developed to foreground historical awareness, critical deconstruction of existing categories, and a grounded understanding of evolving practices in online communities, in ways to holistically analyze the contours and consequences of contemporary digital hate cultures. This framework suggests that the close contextualization of proximate contexts - of media affordances in use or situated speech cultures - should accompany deep contextualization, which accounts for grave historical continuities and technopolitical formations unfolding on a planetary scale. Through such elaborate forays into everyday practices and deeper histories, extreme speech theory proposes to nuance normative and regulatory efforts to classify and isolate hate speech and disinformation.... view less
Keywords
online media; social media; language usage; discourse
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics
Free Keywords
extreme speech; hate speech; deep contextualization; content moderation; methodology
Collection Title
Challenges and perspectives of hate speech research
Editor
Strippel, Christian; Paasch-Colberg, Sünje; Emmer, Martin; Trebbe, Joachim
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
p. 233-248
Series
Digital Communication Research, 12
ISSN
2198-7610
ISBN
978-3-945681-12-1
Status
Primary Publication; peer reviewed