[Commlist] New book: Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society

New book
Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society
Edited By Marta Pérez-Escolar, José Manuel Noguera-Vivo

ISBN 9780367625986
September 30, 2021
Routledge
278 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations


Book Description

This timely volume offers a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the 
role of communication in the construction of hate speech and 
polarization in the online and offline arena.

Delving into the meanings, implications, contexts and effects of extreme 
speech and gated communities in the media landscape, the chapters 
analyse misleading metaphors and rhetoric via focused case studies to 
understand how we can overcome the risks and threats stemming from the 
past decade’s defining communicative phenomena. The book brings together 
an international team of experts, enabling a broad, multidisciplinary 
approach that examines hate speech, dislike, polarization and enclave 
deliberation as cross axes that influence offline and digital 
conversations. The diverse case studies herein offer insights into 
international news media, television drama and social media in a range 
of contexts, suggesting an academic frame of reference for examining 
this emerging phenomenon within the field of communication studies.

Offering thoughtful and much-needed analysis, this collection will be of 
great interest to scholars and students working in communication 
studies, media studies, journalism, sociology, political science, 
political communication and cultural industries.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the Dilemmas and Struggles of Participatory Society
Marta Pérez-Escolar and José Manuel Noguera-Vivo

Part I: Contextualizing the Participatory Society: Metaphors for 
Polarization and Hate Speech

2. How Did We Get Here? The Consequences of Deceit in Addressing 
Political Polarization
Marta Pérez-Escolar and José Manuel Noguera-Vivo

3. Echo Chambers? Filter Bubbles? The Misleading Metaphors That Obscure 
the Real Problem
Axel Bruns

4. Hate Speech and Deliberation: Overcoming the “Words-That-Wound” Trap
Liriam Sponholz

Part II: Political and Ideological Polarization

5. ‘There Ain’t No Rainbow in the ‘Rainbow Nation’: A Discourse Analysis 
of Racial Conflicts on Twitter Hashtags in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Allen Munoriyarwa

6. Blessed Be the Fight: Misogyny and Anti-Feminism in The Handmaid’s Tale
Laura Cortés-Selva and Susana Martínez-Guillem

7. Discursive Construction of Affective Polarization in Brexit Britain: 
Opinion-Based Identities and Out-Group Differentiation
Monika Brusenbauch Meislova

8. The Public Debate on Twitter in the Iberian Sphere: Comparative 
Analysis of the Characteristics in Portugal and Spain
Juan Antonio Marín Albaladejo and João Figueira

9. Towards a New Left-Populist Rhetoric in Turkey: Discourse Analysis of 
Imamoğlu's Campaign
Gülüm Şener, Hakan Yücel and Umur Yedikardeş

10. Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech as Propaganda: A Comparison Between 
Donald Trump and Santiago Abascal on Twitter
Ana I. Barragán-Romero and Maria Elena Villar

11. Hate Speech and Social Polarization in Brazil: From Impeachment to 
Bolsonaro
Gisella Meneguelli and Carme Ferré-Pavia

Part III: Hate Speech in the Social, Traditional and Community Media

12. Countering the Stigma of Homeless People: The Swedish Street Paper 
Situation Sthlm as a Counter-Hegemonic Voice for the Rehumanisation of 
Homeless People
Nico Carpentier, Vaia Doudaki, Ali İhsan Akbaş and Tianyi Wang

13. Hate Speech as a Media Practice: The Portray of Haters and 
Polarization in The Internet Warriors
Alejandro Barranquero and Susana Morais

14. The Asylum-Seeker Discourse Fed by Political Polarization in Turkey: 
A Twitter-Based Analysis
Nurcan Törenli and Zafer Kıyan

15. Orientalism and the Mass Media – A Study of the Representation of 
Muslims in Southern European TV Fiction: The Case of Spanish Prime-time 
TV Series
Cristina Algaba, Beatriz Tomé-Alonso and Giulia Cimini

16. Sports and Hate Speech Messages on Instagram: The Case of Seville FC 
in the Spanish League
Alberto Monroy-Trujillo, Graciela Padilla-Castillo and Francisco 
Cabezuelo-Lorenzo


Editor(s)
Biography

Marta Pérez-Escolar is an assistant professor in the Department of 
Communication at Loyola University (Sevilla, Spain). She received the 
Civic Participation, Transparency and Good Governance PhD Extraordinary 
Award in 2018, awarded by the Region of Murcia (Spain). Her main lines 
of research are focused on civic participation, public opinion, 
political communication and information disorders.　

José Manuel Noguera-Vivo is an associate professor of Journalism at 
UCAM, Spain, where he also is Head of Sciences Communication Department. 
His research emerges from the synergy of society, tech, and journalism. 
He is responsible of Spanish division of Online News Association and 
Science Communication Manager of the European project Interactive 
Narrative Design for Complexity Representations.

Reviews

    "This volume brings a whole range of colours in the black-and-white 
debate on technologies and participatory society. Both the 
cyber-optimistic views about a brave new Internet fuelled participatory 
democracy and the simplistic techno-fatalist criticism solely focused on 
data-driven corporations contribute to misguide the understanding of the 
complex social process that characterises media in the 21st century. 
Between these two extremes there is a necessary room for a rich 
comprehension of the entanglements amongst the new connectivities, the 
new flows of information and the social configurations that come along 
them. The state-of-the-art analyses included in this volume definitely 
contribute to relocate the discussion on hate speech and disinformation 
in the open, wide frame its complexity demands."

    Juan Miguel Aguado, Full Professor of Media and Communication, 
Mobile Media Research Lab, School of Information and Media Studies, 
University of Murcia, Spain

    "Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society provides a 
timely perspective on core issues of contemporary society and culture. 
The lineup of authors is admirable and delivers a truly multi-national 
approach on the many facets and contexts of hate speech and 
polarization. Although hate speech is often practiced under the guise of 
free speech, it can in fact be used to impede deliberation and freedom 
of speech of others – These phenomena are not only dark sides of 
peer-to-peer social media, but exist also in political and media 
representations. The volume thus assembles a rich and many-sided 
perspective on hate speech and polarization, adopting realistic 
connotations of the potentials of participatory society."

    Mikko Villi, Professor of Journalism Studies, Department of 
Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

    "This book is an astute volume that challenges preconceptions and 
informs perspectives on one of the most pressing issues of our time. 
Hate speech and polarization have significant consequences for society 
if they are left misunderstood and misrepresented. Cognizant that hate 
speech and polarization are global challenges, Hate Speech and 
Polarization in Participatory Society brings together a broad range of 
leading scholars from across the world to provide shrewd insights from 
diverse contexts. The edited collection is a nuanced intervention that 
unpacks the potential, promise and peril of participatory media."

    Alfred Hermida, Professor of Journalism, Writing, and Media, 
University of British Columbia, Canada


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