“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!