31.1345, FYI: The Dark Side of Digital Platforms: Linguistic Investigations of Socially Unacceptable Online Discourse Practices

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Subject: 31.1345, FYI: The Dark Side of Digital Platforms: Linguistic Investigations of Socially Unacceptable Online Discourse Practices

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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:27:23
From: Darja Fišer [darja.fiser at ff.uni-lj.si]
Subject: The Dark Side of Digital Platforms: Linguistic Investigations of Socially Unacceptable Online Discourse Practices

 
In the spirit of keeping the academic work moving along, even in the midst of
the challenges we are facing with most of us in some for of lock down - I'd
like to let you know about this open access book just published which I
co-edited with Philippa Smith from the Auchland University of Technology, NZ.
Please see below and feel free to circulate.

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

Intolerant, abusive and hateful speech online has received a lot of attention
by researchers in social, media and communication studies, yet its linguistic
aspects also require thorough investigation. This book just published - The
Dark Side of Digital Platforms -  showcases how a linguistic perspective has
much to offer in unravelling exactly what is occurring in online environments.
With a common goal to interrogate the linguistic aspects of negative online
behaviours, which are prevalent on different social media platforms, the
book’s authors approach this phenomenon from a range of methodological
frameworks. Alongside their efforts to identify, describe and understand
various forms of digital discourse,  they are motivated by a common belief
that their work can inform efforts to contain or mitigate the impact of
negative online behaviours.

Each chapter interrogates a different communicative practice in a specific
modality on a range of online platforms and offers 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 book
contribute a comprehensive understanding of the linguistic landscape of online
hate. The studies presented analyse data across three very different
countries, cultures and languages – Cyprus, Japan and Slovenia – demonstrating
that negative online behaviours are a global problem that should not be
ignored. Therefore, the findings of these studies have much wider
implications.

The e-book available in English is freely available in open access:
https://e-knjige.ff.uni-lj.si/znanstvena-zalozba/catalog/book/191

Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana and Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)

Philippa Smith (Auckland University of Technology, NZ)
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics





 



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