[Commlist] New book: Contesting Hate: Digital Counter-narratives against Islamophobia

New open access book, just published:
Contesting Hate: Digital Counter-narratives against Islamophobia by 
Elizabeth Poole, Eva Haifa Giraud, Ed de Quincey and John E Richardson, MUP

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181527/ 
<https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181527/>
Open access copy: 
https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526181534/9781526181534.xml?rskey=DS1DfL&result=1 
<https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526181534/9781526181534.xml?rskey=DS1DfL&result=1>

Contesting hate draws on a unique five-year dataset, which includes 
social media data, interviews with digital activists and mainstream 
media analysis, generated by the project '#ContestingIslamophobia: 
Representation and Appropriation in Mediated Activism'.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of how social media have been 
used to contest the circulation of racialised Islamophobia, in relation 
to a range of events wherein Islamophobic narratives have been yoked to 
white supremacism, Hindu nationalism and polarising 'culture wars' 
debates. Focusing on archetypal 'trigger events' that have resulted in 
the intensification of Islamophobic discourse - the Christchurch white 
supremacist terrorist attacks, Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic - we 
identify key actors and networks involved in these narratives, and 
foreground successful (and less successful) counter-narrative tactics 
for contesting hate. In the process, we set out a new theoretical and 
methodological framework for conceptualising and researching digital 
discrimination and activism.
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