Books by Iginio Gagliardone
Indiana University Press, 2021
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The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale.
Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary perspective on hateful language online. Moving beyond Euro-American allegations of "fake news," contributors draw attention to local idioms and practices and explore the profound implications for how community is imagined, enacted, and brutally enforced around the world. With a cross-cultural framework nuanced by ethnography and field-based research, the volume investigates a wide range of cases—from anti-immigrant memes targeted at Bolivians in Chile to trolls serving the ruling AK Party in Turkey—to ask how the potential of extreme speech to talk back to authorities has come under attack by diverse forms of digital hate cultures.
Offering a much-needed global perspective on the "dark side" of the internet, Digital Hate is a timely and critical look at the raging debates around online media's failed promises.This book brings together leading anthropologists and communication scholars to offer a much needed global critical perspective on vitriolic exchange and aggressive speech enabled by the Internet. Drawing on cutting-edge case studies from around the world—from China, India, Philippines, Denmark and Kenya to Chile, Turkey, US, Pakistan and Indonesia, the book investigates online extreme speech with a global approach nuanced by ethnography and field-based research.
Contributors:
David Boromisza-Habashi, Gabriele de Seta, Sal Hagen, Nell Haynes, Jonas Kaiser, David Katiambo, Max Kramer, Amy Mack, Carol Mcgranahan, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Indah Pratidina, Erkan Saka, Juergen Schaflechner, Mark Tuters.
Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone & Peter Hervik (eds.)
"Timely, original, and powerful, this anthology is packed with new insights about digital media and political cultures. Contributors comprise an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars grounded predominantly in anthropology and media studies. Their diverse studies in the global north and south approach extreme speech online as a cultural practice situated within wider social struggles. The collection reveals the dynamics of exclusionary politics that paradoxically thrive in the age of digital connectivity."
~Victoria Bernal, author of Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
"This superb collection contains a number of stimulating contributions by authors from around the world. The introduction lays out the book's unique intellectual re-reading of online extreme speech, civility, and rationality. It offers insightful and innovative ways of understanding these issues from decolonial and ethnographically grounded approaches. This is the only book to connect history, colonial formations, and coloniality in the study of extreme speech in the digital age".
~Sarah Chiumbu, Associate Professor, Department of Communication & Media, University of Johannesburg
"How is the term 'hate speech' mobilized to further specific political ends, so deepening rather than alleviating inequalities in the public domain? This is the question that this highly sophisticated collection of essays addresses, drawing on a wide range of cases from Kenya to Chile, the Philippines to Germany. These deeply contextualized studies constitute a huge step forward in our understanding of the cultural and technological underpinnings of extreme speech on a global scale—a landmark study."
~Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science
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As more Africans get online, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly h... more As more Africans get online, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly hailed for their transformative potential. Yet, the fascination for the possibilities of promoting more inclusive forms of development in the information age have obfuscated the reality of the complex negotiations among political and economic actors who are seeking to use technology in their competition for power. Building on over ten years of research in Ethiopia, this book investigates the relationship between politics, development, and technological adoption in Africa's second most populous country and its largest recipient of development aid. The emphasis the book places on the 'technopolitics' of ICTs, and on their ability to embody and enact political goals, offers a strong and empirically grounded counter-argument to prevalent approaches to the study of technology and development that can be applied to other cases in Africa and beyond.
The material shared here is an excerpt from the book, following CUP Green Open Access Policy. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. ©Iginio Gagliardone 2016
The book can be accessed on the CUP website, following the link http://bit.ly/2wahAW3
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This study examines key trends that have characterized global media in the period between 2012 an... more This study examines key trends that have characterized global media in the period between 2012 and 2017, from the rise of new forms of “algorithmic pluralism” to the interactions between “media capture” and “fake news”. It combines regional and global perspectives to chart how different areas of the globe have interacted with the changes occurred in the media sphere, including the decline of the printed press and the contradictions of “zero rating”, which ostensively allows those at the margin to have access to the Internet, but presents them with a much less diverse portion of it. The study develops through four main chapters, analyzing trends in freedom of expression, pluralism, independence, and safety.
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The study provides a global overview of the dynamics characterizing hate speech online and some o... more The study provides a global overview of the dynamics characterizing hate speech online and some of the measures that have been adopted to counteract and mitigate it, highlighting good practices that have emerged at the local and global levels. While the study offers a comprehensive analysis of the international, regional and national normative frameworks developed to address hate speech online, and their repercussions for freedom of expression, it places particular emphasis on social and non-regulatory mechanisms that can help to counter the production, dissemination and impact of hateful messages online.
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This article investigates what is at stake in decolonising the study of conspiracy theories onlin... more This article investigates what is at stake in decolonising the study of conspiracy theories online. It challenges the confidence with which conspiracy theories are often dismissed as aberrations and negative externalities of digital ecosystems. Without reifying conspiracy theories, we identify as problematic how alternative forms of knowledge production are dismissed and colonial tropes reproduced. Contributing to conversations around 'decolonising the internet', we offer additional and sharper tools to understand the role and implications of conspiracy theorising for communicative and political practices in different societies globally. Empirically, we analyse a conspiracy theory circulating in Nigeria between 2018 and 2019 purporting that Nigerian President Buhari had died and the man in office was his 'clone'. Conceptually, our analysis intersects with Achille Mbembe's work on power in the postcolony, to illustrate how it is possible to adopt alternative forms of normativity that eschew the stigmatisation and exclusion that has prevailed, but still offer evaluative frameworks to locate conspiracy theories in contemporary digital environments. We engage with Mbembe's ideas about how humorous and grotesque forms of communication can result in the zombification of both the 'dominant' and those 'apparently dominated'. We argue that zombification as a theoretical intervention provides a useful addition to the conceptual and normative repertoire of those studying conspiracy theories, between the poles of dismissal/ condemnation and pure curiosity/acceptance of what is said.
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This article presents new empirical insights into what people do with conspiracy theories during ... more This article presents new empirical insights into what people do with conspiracy theories during crises. By suppressing the impulse to distinguish between truth and falsehood, which has characterized most scholarship on the COVID-19 “infodemic,” and engaging with claims surrounding two popular COVID-19 conspiracies—on 5G and on Bill Gates—in South Africa and Nigeria, we illustrate how conspiracies morph as they interact with different socio-political contexts. Drawing on a mixed-method analysis of more than 6 million tweets, we examine how, in each country, conspiracies have uniquely intersected with longer-term discourses and political projects. In Nigeria, the two conspiracies were both seized as opportunities to extend criticism to the ruling party. In South Africa, they produced distinctive responses: while the 5G conspiracy had limited buy-in, the Gates conspiracy resonated with deep-rooted resentment toward the West, corporate interests, and what is seen as a paternalistic att...
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Through the lens of China in Africa, this paper explores the transfor - mations in the relationsh... more Through the lens of China in Africa, this paper explores the transfor - mations in the relationship between the Internet and the state. China's econom - ic success, impressive growth of Internet users and relative stability have quietly promoted an example of how the Internet can be deployed within the larger polit- ical and economic strategies of developing states, moving beyond the democrati- zation paradigm promoted in the West. New evidence suggests that this model is becoming increasingly popular, but it is not clear why and how it is spreading. Through a case study comparison of an emerging democracy, Kenya, and a semi- authoritarian country, Ethiopia, where China has recently increased its involve - ment in the communications sector, this paper investigates whether and how the ideas of state stability, development and community that characterize the strate - gies pursued by the Chinese government are influencing and legitimizing the development of a less open model of the...
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In support of African Union endeavours to secure a lasting peace in Darfur, the Stanhope Centre f... more In support of African Union endeavours to secure a lasting peace in Darfur, the Stanhope Centre for Communication Policy Research, in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication will undertake a ten-month consultancy to analyse attitudes and public opinion towards the conflict and the peace process in Darfur. The purpose of the research is to enable the AU-UN mediation team and negotiating parties to develop a deeper understanding of the needs and perceptions of those on the ground, to act and negotiate accordingly, and to develop an effective communications strategy during the mediation and implementation of any peace agreement. The Stanhope Centre’s research will also establish a mechanism that can be used by other organizations to provide much needed empirical information about opinions, attitudes and needs in Darfur as well as in other conflict environments.
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Chinese authorities often frame their activities in the development sector as distinctive from th... more Chinese authorities often frame their activities in the development sector as distinctive from those pursued by Western donors by stressing that they are not seeking to export a specific model but simply to help countries reach their potential. This demand-driven approach has applied to old and new development areas, from education to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and has appeared fairly consistent across countries. This pledge, however, has not meant that Chinese aid is neutral or without significant political implications. China’s concessionary loans and support to development projects have tended to shift balances of power by favouring certain actors over others and have challenged existing development paradigms,revitalizing ideas of the developmental state. Building on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Ethiopia,and Kenya this article explains to which extent China’s entrance in the media and telecommunication sector actually challenges the dominant, Western-driv...
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In crisis areas, those who control the media hold a keen advantage in terms of disseminating idea... more In crisis areas, those who control the media hold a keen advantage in terms of disseminating ideas, strategically supplying information, and apportioning blame. Through the analysis of the case of the Darfur conflict, Iginio Gagliardone and Lauren Kogen will illustrate on the one hand how the Sudanese government has tried to use the local media to re-frame the image of the West from provider of help to corruptor of local values before the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces, and on the other how different quantitative and qualitative research methods can be used in repressive situations to understand how messages regarding the conflict are received and interpreted by the population in Darfur. Paper prepared for the Fifth Anniversary Conference of the Department of Media and Communications, ‘Media, Communication & Humanity’, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, 21-23 September 2008.
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The working paper reflects on the critical opportunities and limits of collecting people’s voices... more The working paper reflects on the critical opportunities and limits of collecting people’s voices in Africa, with a particular emphasis on Ethiopia, a country where formal public opinion research is largely novel, despite government efforts to emphasize the need to develop a participatory approach to development.
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Book description
The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale.
Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary perspective on hateful language online. Moving beyond Euro-American allegations of "fake news," contributors draw attention to local idioms and practices and explore the profound implications for how community is imagined, enacted, and brutally enforced around the world. With a cross-cultural framework nuanced by ethnography and field-based research, the volume investigates a wide range of cases—from anti-immigrant memes targeted at Bolivians in Chile to trolls serving the ruling AK Party in Turkey—to ask how the potential of extreme speech to talk back to authorities has come under attack by diverse forms of digital hate cultures.
Offering a much-needed global perspective on the "dark side" of the internet, Digital Hate is a timely and critical look at the raging debates around online media's failed promises.This book brings together leading anthropologists and communication scholars to offer a much needed global critical perspective on vitriolic exchange and aggressive speech enabled by the Internet. Drawing on cutting-edge case studies from around the world—from China, India, Philippines, Denmark and Kenya to Chile, Turkey, US, Pakistan and Indonesia, the book investigates online extreme speech with a global approach nuanced by ethnography and field-based research.
Contributors:
David Boromisza-Habashi, Gabriele de Seta, Sal Hagen, Nell Haynes, Jonas Kaiser, David Katiambo, Max Kramer, Amy Mack, Carol Mcgranahan, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Indah Pratidina, Erkan Saka, Juergen Schaflechner, Mark Tuters.
Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone & Peter Hervik (eds.)
"Timely, original, and powerful, this anthology is packed with new insights about digital media and political cultures. Contributors comprise an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars grounded predominantly in anthropology and media studies. Their diverse studies in the global north and south approach extreme speech online as a cultural practice situated within wider social struggles. The collection reveals the dynamics of exclusionary politics that paradoxically thrive in the age of digital connectivity."
~Victoria Bernal, author of Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
"This superb collection contains a number of stimulating contributions by authors from around the world. The introduction lays out the book's unique intellectual re-reading of online extreme speech, civility, and rationality. It offers insightful and innovative ways of understanding these issues from decolonial and ethnographically grounded approaches. This is the only book to connect history, colonial formations, and coloniality in the study of extreme speech in the digital age".
~Sarah Chiumbu, Associate Professor, Department of Communication & Media, University of Johannesburg
"How is the term 'hate speech' mobilized to further specific political ends, so deepening rather than alleviating inequalities in the public domain? This is the question that this highly sophisticated collection of essays addresses, drawing on a wide range of cases from Kenya to Chile, the Philippines to Germany. These deeply contextualized studies constitute a huge step forward in our understanding of the cultural and technological underpinnings of extreme speech on a global scale—a landmark study."
~Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science
The material shared here is an excerpt from the book, following CUP Green Open Access Policy. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. ©Iginio Gagliardone 2016
The book can be accessed on the CUP website, following the link http://bit.ly/2wahAW3
Papers by Iginio Gagliardone
Scroll down the webpage to find the full pdf to download under "Resources".
***
Book description
The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale.
Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary perspective on hateful language online. Moving beyond Euro-American allegations of "fake news," contributors draw attention to local idioms and practices and explore the profound implications for how community is imagined, enacted, and brutally enforced around the world. With a cross-cultural framework nuanced by ethnography and field-based research, the volume investigates a wide range of cases—from anti-immigrant memes targeted at Bolivians in Chile to trolls serving the ruling AK Party in Turkey—to ask how the potential of extreme speech to talk back to authorities has come under attack by diverse forms of digital hate cultures.
Offering a much-needed global perspective on the "dark side" of the internet, Digital Hate is a timely and critical look at the raging debates around online media's failed promises.This book brings together leading anthropologists and communication scholars to offer a much needed global critical perspective on vitriolic exchange and aggressive speech enabled by the Internet. Drawing on cutting-edge case studies from around the world—from China, India, Philippines, Denmark and Kenya to Chile, Turkey, US, Pakistan and Indonesia, the book investigates online extreme speech with a global approach nuanced by ethnography and field-based research.
Contributors:
David Boromisza-Habashi, Gabriele de Seta, Sal Hagen, Nell Haynes, Jonas Kaiser, David Katiambo, Max Kramer, Amy Mack, Carol Mcgranahan, Jonathan Corpus Ong, Indah Pratidina, Erkan Saka, Juergen Schaflechner, Mark Tuters.
Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone & Peter Hervik (eds.)
"Timely, original, and powerful, this anthology is packed with new insights about digital media and political cultures. Contributors comprise an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars grounded predominantly in anthropology and media studies. Their diverse studies in the global north and south approach extreme speech online as a cultural practice situated within wider social struggles. The collection reveals the dynamics of exclusionary politics that paradoxically thrive in the age of digital connectivity."
~Victoria Bernal, author of Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
"This superb collection contains a number of stimulating contributions by authors from around the world. The introduction lays out the book's unique intellectual re-reading of online extreme speech, civility, and rationality. It offers insightful and innovative ways of understanding these issues from decolonial and ethnographically grounded approaches. This is the only book to connect history, colonial formations, and coloniality in the study of extreme speech in the digital age".
~Sarah Chiumbu, Associate Professor, Department of Communication & Media, University of Johannesburg
"How is the term 'hate speech' mobilized to further specific political ends, so deepening rather than alleviating inequalities in the public domain? This is the question that this highly sophisticated collection of essays addresses, drawing on a wide range of cases from Kenya to Chile, the Philippines to Germany. These deeply contextualized studies constitute a huge step forward in our understanding of the cultural and technological underpinnings of extreme speech on a global scale—a landmark study."
~Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science
The material shared here is an excerpt from the book, following CUP Green Open Access Policy. This version is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. ©Iginio Gagliardone 2016
The book can be accessed on the CUP website, following the link http://bit.ly/2wahAW3