31.2850, Calls: Applied Ling/Switzerland

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Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:11:27
From: Inês Signorini [inesignorini at gmail.com]
Subject: Language practices of cyberhate

 
Full Title: Language practices of cyberhate 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021
Location: Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland 
Contact Person: Inês Signorini
Meeting Email: inesignorini at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 22-Oct-2020 

Meeting Description:

Since the rise of 'social media’ in the late 2010s, communities based on
affects and affinities have rapidly spread and reached an audience never
imagined before. A well known phenomenon associated with these communities is
the circulation of false information or fake news. Due to these misinformation
cascades (Easley & Kleinberg, 2010),  we have seen how individuals abandon
their own point of view and convictions to follow a community point of view,
even although it sounds completely untrue or nonsensical. The usage of a
hashtag points to this cascade behavior as it promotes a sense of belonging,
of being a part of a community. This identity between individual and community
may be faced as a shared practice of inclusion, but, while fake news is
usually associated with the rise of populism and extremism, we have noticed
how gender, religion, political, ethnic, and racial diversity has been
frequently avoided, silenced, and excluded. In addition to exclusion, new
forms of cyberbullying, more specifically new forms of verbal and semiotic
violence, or cyberhate, emerge. As a matter of fact, the Internet has become a
privileged tool to disseminate hatred, based on racism, xenophobia, bigotry,
and all sorts of bias and prejudice.

In order to examine the language practices involved in cyberhate online, this
panel invites scholars from all fields in pragmatics to approach and discuss
contemporary language practices that are aimed at producing online hate speech
and incitement in different forms of cyberhate, generally defined as ''any
digital act of violence, hostility, and intimidation, directed towards people
because of their identity or perceived difference'' (Khosravinik & Esposito,
2018).

As scholars interested on the topic of discourse analysis (Blommaert, 2005)
and ethics of discourse (Graham, 2018) on social media communication, we
propose some fundamental questions that could inspire and inform the
discussion agenda: How do people get engaged linguistically and semiotically
in processes of othering? How do people make investment in resources to
support their online hate? How language works in this context of cyberhate?
Under what circumstances the discursive practice of cyberhate is not only
produced, but also consumed and diffused? 


Call for Papers: 

Paper proposals should be pre-submitted by email to the panel organizers by
October 22 (inesignorini at gmail.com; luizandrenevesdebrito at gmail.com). Papers
will also need to be submitted via the main conference website (instructions
at https://pragmatics.international/page/CfP) by October 25. 

References: 
Blommaert, J. (2005). Discourse: a critical introduction. Cambridge University
Press.
Easley, D. & Klleinberg, J. (2010). Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning
about a Highly Connected World. Cambridge University Press.
Graham, P. (2018). Ethics in critical discourse analysis. Critical Discourse
Studies, 15 (2), 186-203.
Khosravinik, M. & Esposito, E. (2018). Online hate, digital discourse and
critique: Exploring digitally-mediated discursive practices of gender-based
hostility. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics. 14. 45-68.




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