Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society

This timely volume offers a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the role of communication in the construction of hate speech and polarization in the online and offline arena. Delving into the meanings, implications, contexts and effects of extreme speech and gated communities in the media landscape, the chapters analyse misleading metaphors and rhetoric via focused case studies to understand how we can overcome the risks and threats stemming from the past decade's defining communicative phenomena. The book brings together an international team of experts, enabling a broad, multidisciplinary approach that examines hate speech, dislike, polarization and enclave deliberation as cross axes that influence offline and digital conversations. The diverse case studies herein offer insights into international news media, television drama and social media in a range of contexts, suggesting an academic frame of reference for examining this emerging phenomenon within the field of communication studies. Offering thoughtful and much-needed analysis, this collection will be of great interest to scholars and students working in communication studies, media studies, journalism, sociology, political science, political communication and cultural industries.

Marta Pérez-Escolar is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Loyola University (Sevilla, Spain). She received the Civic Participation, Transparency and Good Governance PhD Extraordinary Award in 2018, awarded by the Region of Murcia (Spain). Her main lines of research are focused on civic participation, public opinion, political communication and information disorders. José Manuel Noguera-Vivo is an associate professor of Journalism at UCAM, Spain, where he also is Head of Sciences Communication Department. His research emerges from the synergy of society, tech, and journalism. He is responsible of Spanish division of Online News Association and Science Communication Manager of the European project Interactive Narrative Design for Complexity Representations.

1. Introduction to the Dilemmas and Struggles of Participatory Society; Part I: Contextualizing the Participatory Society: Metaphors for Polarization and Hate Speech; 2. How Did We Get Here? The Consequences of Deceit in Addressing Political Polarization; 3. Echo Chambers? Filter Bubbles? The Misleading Metaphors That Obscure the Real Problem; 4. Hate Speech and Deliberation: Overcoming the "Words-That-Wound" Trap; Part II: Political and Ideological Polarization; 5. 'There Ain't No Rainbow in the 'Rainbow Nation': A Discourse Analysis of Racial Conflicts on Twitter Hashtags in Post-Apartheid South Africa; 6. Blessed Be the Fight: Misogyny and Anti-Feminism in The Handmaid's Tale; 7. Discursive Construction of Affective Polarization in Brexit Britain: Opinion-Based Identities and Out-Group Differentiation; 8. The Public Debate on Twitter in the Iberian Sphere: Comparative Analysis of the Characteristics in Portugal and Spain; 9. Towards a New Left-Populist Rhetoric in Turkey: Discourse Analysis of Imamoglu's Campaign; 10. Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech as Propaganda: A Comparison Between Donald Trump and Santiago Abascal on Twitter; 11. Hate Speech and Social Polarization in Brazil: From Impeachment to Bolsonaro; Part III: Hate Speech in the Social, Traditional and Community Media; 12. Countering the Stigma of Homeless People: The Swedish Street Paper Situation Sthlm as a Counter-Hegemonic Voice for the Rehumanisation of Homeless People; 13. Hate Speech as a Media Practice. The Portray of Haters and Polarization in The Internet Warriors; 14. The Asylum-Seeker Discourse Fed by Political Polarization in Turkey: A Twitter-Based Analysis; 15. Orientalism and the Mass Media - A Study of the Representation of Muslims in Southern European TV Fiction: The Case of Spanish Prime-time TV Series; 16. Sports and Hate Speech Messages on Instagram: The Case of Seville FC in the Spanish League