Social Media

Mr. Mark Weitzman, Prof. Michel Wieviorka

The rise of the Internet and social media brought with it positive and negative outcomes. On the one hand, it enabled individuals and groups to connect on a global level and to have instant access to information and knowledge. However it also allowed for the spread and dissemination of extremely negative and hostile content, including antisemitism.

What place do the Internet and social media hold in the spread of hateful content, including antisemitism, today?

References

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• Foxman, Abraham H. and Christopher Wolf, eds., Viral Hate: Containing Its Spread on the Internet (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

• Keipi, Teo, Matti Näsi, Atte Oksanen and Pekka Räsänen, eds., Online Hate and Harmful Content: Cross-National Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2017).

• Klein, Adam, Fanaticism, Racism, and Rage Online: Corrupting the Digital Sphere (Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2017).

• Townsend, Peter, The Dark Side of Technology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

• Vickery, Jacqueline Ryan and Tracy Everbach, eds., Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, and Harassment (Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018).

• Weitzman, Mark, “The Internet is Our Sword: Aspects of Online Antisemitism,” in edited by John K. Roth and Elisabeth Maxwell-Meynard, eds., Remembering for the Future: The Holocaust in an Age of Genocide (New York, Palgrave 2001), pp. 925 – 991.

• Wetzel, Juliane, “Soft Denial in Different Political and Social Areas on the Web,” in Anthony McElligott and Jeffrey Herf, eds., Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 305 – 331.

• Wieviorka, Michel, The Lure of Anti-Semitism: Hatred of Jews in Present-Day France (Leiden: Brill, 2007).

• Wodak, Ruth, “Introductory Remarks from ‘Hate Speech’ to ‘Hate Tweets’,” in Mojca Pajnik and Birgit Sauer, eds., Populism and the Web: Communicative Practices of Parties and Movements in Europe (New York : Routledge, 2018), pp. xvii – xxiii.