The Dark Side of Digital Platforms: Linguistic Investigations of Socially Unacceptable Online Discourse Practices

Authors

Darja Fišer (ed)
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia
Philippa Smith (ed)
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4312/9789610603061

Keywords:

socially unacceptable discourse, hate speech, computer-mediated communication, digital platforms, linguistic analysis

Synopsis

While intolerant, abusive and hateful speech online has received a lot of attention by researchers in social, media and communication studies, its linguistic aspects have yet to be thoroughly investigated. This book contributes to filling this gap by showcasing how a linguistic perspective has much to offer in unravelling exactly what is occurring. With a common goal to interrogate the linguistic aspects of negative online behaviours on different social media platforms and against different targets, the authors approached the phenomenon from a different methodological frameworks. While primarily interested in identifying, describing and understanding intolerant, abusive and hateful speech online thoroughly and comprehensively, they also had a common belief that their work could inform efforts to contain or mitigate the impact of negative online behaviours regardless of where they occur.

Each chapter interrogates a different communicative practice in a specific modality on a range of online platforms in order to offer insights into different quantitative and qualitative approaches when it comes to the complexities of the linguistic analysis of negative online behaviours. The range of methodological frameworks and theoretical approaches utilized in the explorations into online discourses of racism, misogyny, homophobia/LGBQT+ rights and islamophobia/anti-immigrant discourses presented in this volume contribute towards a comprehensive understanding of the linguistic landscape of online hate. The studies in this volume analyse data from three very different countries, cultures and languages – Cyprus, Japan and Slovenia – which demonstrates that negative online behaviours are a global problem which cannot be ignored. Therefore, the findings of these studies have much wider implications.

Chapters

  • Preface
    Darja Fišer, Philippa Smith
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  • Nonstandard linguistic features of Slovene socially unacceptable discourse on Facebook
    Darja Fišer, Kristina Pahor de Maiti, Nikola Ljubešić
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  • Twitter discourse on LGBTQ+ in Slovenia
    Darja Fišer, Vojko Gorjanc
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  • Corpus-assisted analysis of water flow metaphors in Slovene online news migration discourse of 2015
    Darja Fišer, Zoran Fijavž
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  • Mitigating the frame SEXUAL THREAT in anti-migration discourse online
    Fabienne H. Baider, Anna Bobori
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  • Social media as facilitator – a cultural and sociolinguistic analysis of hate speech discourse and performance in Japan
    Goran Vaage
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  • Review 1
    Tanja Petrović
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  • Review 2
    Stavros Assimakopoulos
    PDF

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Published

March 19, 2020

Series

Prevodoslovje in uporabno jezikoslovje

Print ISSN

2335-335X

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How to Cite

Fišer, D., & Smith, P. (Eds.). (2020). The Dark Side of Digital Platforms: Linguistic Investigations of Socially Unacceptable Online Discourse Practices. University of Ljubljana Press. https://doi.org/10.4312/9789610603061