For Digital Dignity

DIGITAL DIGNITY: EXPLORATIONS IN RELIGIOUS POLITICS ONLINE

In an invited presentation, Sahana Udupa, Salma Siddique and Max Kramer will build on their ongoing ethnographic fieldwork on online practices among prominent Hindu and Muslim political groups in India and the diaspora in the UK, to explore what it means to image in a life of dignity in the digital age.
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ACTIVISM AND CONTESTATION ONLINE

In an invited guest lecture and master class series on “activism and contestation” organized by Katrien Pype, KU Leuven University, together with anthropology colleagues from the University of Ghent and Antwerp, Belgium, Sahana Udupa will speak about decolonial approaches to online extreme speech and global resistance.
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HATE SPEECH, INFORMATION DISORDER AND CONFLICT

Sahana Udupa will speak about global research on hate speech, information disorder and conflict (a comprehensive review prepared in collaboration with Iginio Gagliardone, Alexandra Deem and Laura Csuka) at the workshop of the SSRC Academic Network on Peace, Security and the United Nations, in New York.
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SOCIAL MEDIA ETHICS AND THE JAMAAT-E-ISLAMI HIND

ONLINERPOL core team member Max Kramer will analyze the theory and practice of social media ethics of the Indian reform Islamic organization Jamaat-e-Islami Hind in his upcoming talk on January 22. He is going to compare the ethical understanding of the Jamaat with other traditions of ethics that deal with questions of social media on
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MULTIPLICITIES AND CONVERGENCE IN ONLINE EXTREME SPEECH

In the lecture series, “The End/s of History: Post 1989 Worlds in the Making” organized by Annika Lems, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Sahana Udupa will probe the nature and contours of a global conjuncture of exclusionary politics, using online extreme speech as a window to contemporary digital cultures.
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INDIA’S DISINFORMATION COMPLEX: INVITED PRESENTATION AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Sahana Udupa will participate in a public discussion and present the paper, “Extreme Speech in Election Times: Innovation and Shirking in India’s Disinformation Complex” at the international conference on Digital Futures and Fragile Democracies, Columbia University, New York. The conference is organized by Jonathan Corpus Ong (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Sheila Coronel (Columbia University), Duncan

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“SOMETHING ON HER SHOULDERS: MODEST FASHIONISTAS AND THE MORALIZING COMMUNITY”

Salma Siddique will present her ongoing researchat the 5th European Geographies of Sexualities conference in Prague.

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NEW ASSERTIONS OF INDIAN MUSLIMS AND THE SCALES OF ONLINE POLITICS: A CASE STUDY OF AIMIM’S ELECTION VOLUNTEERISM ON SOCIAL MEDIA

27 June 2019
By
Max Kramer,
At
Erster deutscher Südasientag (University of Bonn)

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