Online hate speech: contents, networks and effects on hate crime
Project Synopsis Title: Online hate speech: contents, networks and effects on hate crime While the interest of researchers and policy-makers towards online hate speech is growing, its impact on the offline world is still to be assessed. In fact, most research has been focusing either on online hate speech or on hate crime, letting the…
Preaching Hate: A Contextual Discourse Analysis of Charismatic Socio-Religious Speech
Project Synopsis Title: Preaching Hate: A Contextual Discourse Analysis of Charismatic Socio-Religious Speech This project investigates the relationship between the emotions undergirding the practice of hate and the construction and influence of formal and informal types of authority in the European context. Increasingly “hateful ideologies” are propagated by right-wing propagandists, religious fanatics, and extreme left…
Religion and Hate Victimization among Youth: Contexts, Consequences and Adaptive Strategies
Project Synopsis Title: Religion and Hate Victimization among Youth: Contexts, Consequences and Adaptive Strategies Religion remains a source of meaning for billions of people in today’s world. For many, religion is a crucial part of their identity, which sets the guidelines for their way of living, form of communicating, their dress code and behaviour. Being…
Religiously motivated hate speech targeting queer people: An International Human Rights Law Analysis
Project Synopsis Title: Religiously motivated hate speech targeting queer people: An International Human Rights Law Analysis Religiously motivated ‘hate speech’ which targets queer people presents a dilemma for human rights on the domestic, regional, and international level. From an international human rights law perspective, the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of religion are…
A Critical Analysis of Hate Perpetration Against Roma
Project Synopsis Title: A Critical Analysis of Hate Perpetration Against Roma. Antigypsyism is “a specific form of racism directed against gypsies, an ideology based on racial superiority, a form of dehumanization and institutional racism fueled by historical discrimination, which is expresses, among other ways, through violence, hate speech, exploitation, stigmatization and the most brutal discrimination”…
Hate speech in polarized political controversies – communicative dynamics and prospects of prevention
Project Synopsis Title: Hate speech in polarized political controversies – communicative dynamics and prospects of prevention. Hate speech is profoundly linked to politics and ideology. For instance, hate speech frequently targets politically salient and/or marginalized groups, rises in response to sociopolitical events, and is more prevalent in political compared to nonpolitical online discussions. Relatedly, political…