Seminar (CNSC): An analytic framework for studying networked responses to online hate speech

Program

Summary

Hate speech often intensifies during contentious media episodes with the aim of bringing broader audiences towards extremist perspectives. However, hate speech perpetrators' intentions can be challenged in different gatekeeping points, such as the media criteria and routines, the content moderation platform mechanisms, and the networked media practices of social media users. I choose the third checkpoint perspective to look at the phenomenon, in an attempt to understand the limits of hate speech posed by social actors in their performance in the public sphere. To do that, I am developing an analytical framework that updates a classical mass communication theory for its application to the current mass self-communication environments. In this seminar, I present a work-in-progress of that framework. It has been beneficial in my comparison of two case studies, and hopefully it might serve to enrich and systematize the analysis of further contentious episodes emerging on social media.

Marta Cambronero Garbajosa

Journalist and Master in Information and Knowledge Society (UOC). Currently, she is a predoctoral researcher at the Technopolitics Unit of the Communication Networks & Social Change research group (CNSC). From a pragmatic approach, and combining qualitative and computational methods, her research addresses user-activist driven online hate speech response practices.

To participate in the seminar, please contact Marta Cambronero, at macambronero@uoc.edu.