Dear all, A special IJoC section on online extreme speech is just published. Apologies for cross-posting. On 18.07.19, 02:20, "Arlene Luck" <aluck@usc.edu> wrote: International Journal of Communication Publishes a Special Section on Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures Why is there so much hate on social media? How dangerous is online vitriol for politics and society? Can there be a universal definition of hate speech? Edited by Sahana Udupa (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität LMU Munich, Germany) and Matti Pohjonen (School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS, UK), this Special Section on Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures advances these questions by introducing the concept of “extreme speech” as a critical ethnographic intervention into heated scholarly debates around disinformation, online extremism and hateful communication online. It brings together nine leading scholars researching online vitriol as situated speech cultures, focusing on the actual rather than abstract conditions of possibility for action against it. By taking a distinctly global perspective honed by ethnographic sensibility to broader histories of difference and exclusion, the special section moves the debate beyond legal-normative approaches dominant in North America and Europe, and moral panics around fake news and filter bubbles. It foregrounds the different ways online vitriol is entangled with, and has come to significantly shape, the cultural, social and political fabric of vastly diverse world regions: from Chile, Denmark and Syria to the U.S., Ethiopia, India and Myanmar. Ethnographic explorations of online “extreme speech” open up a new ground to critique the contemporary global conjuncture of exclusionary politics. We invite you to read this new Special Section of 10 articles that published in the International Journal of Communication on July 10, 2019. Please go to ijoc.org to access these newly published papers. _____________________________________________________ Extreme Speech and Global Digital Cultures — Introduction Sahana Udupa, Matti Pohjonen Defining Online Hate and Its “Public Lives”: What is the Place for “Extreme Speech”? Iginio Gagliardone A Comparative Approach to Social Media Extreme Speech: Online Hate Speech as Media Commentary Matti Pohjonen Ritualized Opposition in Danish Online Practices of Extremist Language and Thought Peter Hervik Writing on the Walls: Discourses on Bolivian Immigrants in Chilean Meme Humor Nell Haynes Nationalism in the Digital Age: Fun as a Metapractice of Extreme Speech Sahana Udupa A Presidential Archive of Lies: Racism, Twitter, and a History of the Present Carole McGranahan The Digital Traces of #whitegenocide and Alt-Right Affective Economies of Transgression Alexandra Deem Extreme Speech in Myanmar: The Role of State Media in the Rohingya Forced Migration Crisis Ronan Lee An Archetypal Digital Witness: The Child Figure and the Media Conflict over Syria Omar Al-Ghazzi _____________________________________________________ Larry Gross Editor Arlene Luck Managing Editor Sahana Udupa, Matti Pohjonen Guest Editors ___________________________________________________ International Journal of Communication (IJoC) USC Annenberg Press University of Southern California http://ijoc.org/