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“I didn’t mean that, but why can’t I say it?”: legitimation strategies in
mediated hate speech and veiled discrimination online.
“No volia dir això, però, perquè no puc dir-ho?”: estratègies de
legitimació en el discurs de l’odi I la discriminació vetllada en línia.
“No quería decir eso, pero ¿por qué no puedo decirlo?”: estrategias de
legitimación en el discurso de odio y la discriminación velada online.
Gavan Title @GavanTitle
conference / conferencia / conferència:
I DIDN’T SAY THAT, BUT WHY CAN’T I SAY IT?” LEGITIMATION STRATEGIES IN MEDIATED HATE SPEECH AND VEILED DISCRIMINATION ONLINE
Dr Gavan Titley
National University of Ireland Maynooth
ICUD, Barcelona 13 March 2014
We hate coz we love.
This presentation:
Hate speech and ‘hidden discrimination’ as a continuum
Hidden discrimination and social media interactions…
In political culture In hybrid media systems And discursive repertoires In and through media forms and mediated formations
“Breivik’s spider web of hate”Guardian datablog, 18/9/11
“Racial, religious and ethnic slurs on Twitter”
Negative stereotype
Casual use of slurs
Targeted abuse
Appropriated usage
Ideological motivation & offline action
Antisocial Media, Demos (2014)
Judith Butler:
‘Prejudice neither begins nor ends with the subject that speaks and
acts’
Generative media events
Debates about (from the viewpoint of the national manager)
The victimized majority
Immigration has made us strangers in our own land
You can’t say what you really think these days, freedom of speech is gone as well
That’s reverse racism
How come multiculturalism is all about them?
You’re defending human rights? No, we’re defending human rights!