Online disinformation and “extreme speech” are destabilizing global democracies. Various actors exploit digital networks to target vulnerable groups such as migrants, women, ethnic and religious minorities, and advocates of inclusion.
The research project SMALLPLATFORMS examines how contentious speech emerges and spreads on small social media platforms using ethnographic and computational methods in four countries.
“Understanding, Detecting, and Mitigating Online Misogyny Against Politically Active Women” is a new multiyear interdisciplinary project in the For Digital Dignity research program. Sahana Udupa will be steering the project together with Juergen Pfeffer (TUM) and Janina Steinert (TUM).
Recent political upheavals in Europe and the US have highlighted the paradoxical nature of contemporary digital communication. This project examines the ‘paradoxes’ of contemporary digital communication.
AI4Dignity is a proof of concept project funded by the European Research Council (2020-2022) that aims to address challenges facing AI-assisted extreme speech moderation.
The project explores the vibrant forms of Internet enabled debate cultures and political participation in urban India.
Media law and policy in India has historically been driven by concerns around hate speech and incitement to violence based on religious identity, and law and policy governing the Internet and popular social media platforms.
The project will carry out an ethnographic study of online practices and narratives around the diaspora experiences, nation and belonging among the Indian Hindu diaspora in the UK and Germany. It will ethnographically chart particular social media sites and user groups.
The project ethnographically examines emerging regulatory practices around online speech restrictions and civil society contestations in India.
This project will analyze the production and circulation of memes.
The project will carry out an ethnographic study of online practices, Muslim identities and narratives of national belonging among the Indian diaspora in the UK and Germany.
The study will map and analyze online media engagements of a major organization for political Islam in India (for e.g., Jamaat-i-Islami) using ethnographic techniques and discourse anlaysis.
This project examines The Red Pill’s ideological structure and unravels the intricacies of its persuasive force.
