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[ecrea] Call for Papers - Hate speech in news websites’ comments

Sat Jan 25 00:25:30 GMT 2014




Annales, Series historia et sociologia (A&HCI, SSCI) – Special Issue



REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS



Hate speech in news websites’ comments



Guest Editor of the Special Issue: Prof. Dr. Karmen Erjavec (University

of Ljubljana, Slovenia)



Editors of Annales have decided to devote a special issue (2014, No. 2)

to the following topic:



The Internet’s interactivity, anonymity, and perceived credibility cumulatively create a powerful tool for persuasion with a positive message, but also with bias and hate speech. Because (news) websites’ comments – one of the oldest forms of user opinions in online media, usually delivered through a special form at the end of a news item, on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc. – have become an important space of spreading hate speech, this issue tries to contribute to uncovering the characteristics of online hate speech. Comments on news items on websites contain more hate speech messages than written letters because hate speech messages in letters can more easily be eliminated from publication and because editors permit the publication of online comments, for they perceive them as a means of keeping old and attracting new users of online news media. Some writers (mostly those of the younger and middle generations) choose writing and reading comments on the Internet over ‘‘letters to the editors’’ because of anonymity, quick publication, and greater autonomy of writing. Because the number of visits on a news website has quite an impact on the price of advertising, editors want to attract as many users as possible with as little regulation of publication as possible. The discussion on hate speech is connected with the discussions on freedom of expression, which is considered one of the cornerstones of a democracy, and at the same time also one of the most contested rights. The discussion on hate speech is also connected with the discussions on problems of regulation of cyber hate speech. The journal invites theoretical as well as empirical articles that focus on different aspects of hate speech discourse in news websites’ comments, including:



• the historical point view on hate speech messages,

• the characteristics of hate speech comments on news items on news websites,

• the motives, values, and beliefs of producers/writers of hate speech comments,

• the journalists’ definition and understanding of hate speech,

• the journalists’ opinions about hate speech comments on news items on news websites,

• the regulatory and self-regulatory media frameworks of hate speech comments on news items on news websites,

• the perception of hate speech comments on news items on news websites among internet users,

• global and local perspective on hate speech comments on news websites.



Authors included in this special issue should consider these aspects as a starting-point for their research. It is strongly recommended that the authors proceed from the particular dynamics in media and writers of hate speech comments relationship in their countries, do original theoretically informed research study, and then elaborate it in a larger social context. Theoretical reflections about the issues above, comparative analyses and methodological reconsiderations are also very welcome.



Important Dates:

Abstracts of 300 to 350 words and author’s affiliation with contact details submission: 1 February 2014.

Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 February 2014.

Full manuscript of 48.000 characters (without spaces) submission:  1

June 2014

Results of double blind peer review: 1 August 2014

Revised paper submission: 1 September 2014

Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2014

Final paper submission: 1 October 2014



All submissions should be sent electronically to Karmen Erjavec

((karmen.erjavec /at/ fdv.uni-lj.si))



The journal is included in the international database of citations Thomson Reuters: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI).



Editor

Darko Darovec



Guest Editor

Karmen Erjavec

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