Volume 12
Challenges and Perspectives of Hate Speech Research
Edited by Christian Strippel, Sünje Paasch-Colberg, Martin Emmer & Joachim Trebbe
Berlin, 2023
DOI 10.48541/dcr.v12.0 (SSOAR) | ISBN 978-3-945681-12-1
Abstract: This book is the result of a conference that could not take place. It is a collection of 26 texts that address and discuss the latest developments in international hate speech research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. This includes case studies from Brazil, Lebanon, Poland, Nigeria, and India, theoretical introductions to the concepts of hate speech, dangerous speech, incivility, toxicity, extreme speech, and dark participation, as well as reflections on methodological challenges such as scraping, annotation, datafication, implicity, explainability, and machine learning. As such, it provides a much-needed forum for cross-national and cross-disciplinary conversations in what is currently a very vibrant field of research.
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Table of Contents
Sünje Paasch-Colberg, Christian Strippel, Martin Emmer & Joachim Trebbe
Sharing is Caring: Addressing shared issues and challenges in hate speech research
I POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES: CURRENT ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENTS
Afonso de Albuquerque & Marcelo Alves
Bolsonaro’s hate network: From the fringes to the presidency
Zahera Harb
Journalists as messengers of hate speech: The case of Lebanon
Dagmara Szczepańska & Marta Marchlewska
Unfree to speak and forced to hate? The phenomenon of the All-Poland Women’s Strike
Anna Litvinenko
The role of context in incivility research
Tomiwa Ilori
Beyond the law: Towards alternative methods of hate speech interventions in Nigeria
Sana Ahmad
Who moderates my social media? Locating Indian workers in the global content moderation practices
Christian Schemer & Liane Reiners
Challenges of comparative research on hate speech in media user comments: Comparing countries, platforms, and target groups
II THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: TERMS, CONCEPTS, AND DEFINITIONS
Liriam Sponholz
Hate speech
Lena Frischlich
Hate and harm
Susan Benesch
Dangerous speech
Marike Bormann & Marc Ziegele
Incivility
Julian Risch
Toxicity
Sahana Udupa
Extreme speech
Thorsten Quandt & Johanna Klapproth
Dark participation: Conception, reception, and extensions
Gina M. Masullo
Future directions for online incivility research
III METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES: OPERATIONALIZATION, AUTOMATION AND DATA
Babak Bahador
Monitoring hate speech and the limits of current definition
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen
The datafication of hate speech
Christian Baden
Evasive offenses: Linguistic limits to the detection of hate speech
Matthias J. Becker & Hagen Troschke
Decoding implicit hate speech: The example of antisemitism
Jae Yeon Kim
Machines do not decide hate speech: Machine learning, power, and
the intersectional approach
Anke Stoll
The accuracy trap or how to build a phony classifier
Laura Laugwitz
The right kind of explanation: Validity in automated hate speech detection
Paddy Leerssen, Amélie Heldt & Matthias C. Kettemann
Scraping by? Europe’s law and policy on social media research access
Jakob Jünger
Scraping social media data as platform research: A data hermeneutical perspective
Paula Fortuna, Juan Soler-Company & Leo Wanner
Dataset annotation in abusive language detection
Jaime Lee Kirtz & Zeerak Talat
Futures for research on hate speech in online social media platforms
Strippel, C., Paasch-Colberg, S., Emmer, M., & Trebbe, J. (Eds.) (2023). Challenges and perspectives of hate speech research. Digital Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.48541/dcr.v12.0
This book is published open access and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0).
The persistent long-term archiving of this book is carried out with the help of the Social Science Open Access Repository and the university library of Freie Universität Berlin (Refubium).