Research projects

From long-term ethnography to collaborative machine learning — the centre's active and completed research.

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ENCRYPTED MESSAGING AND EXTREME SPEECH

Online disinformation and “extreme speech” are destabilizing global democracies.

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SMALLPLATFORMS

The research project SMALLPLATFORMS examines how contentious speech emerges and spreads on small social media platforms using ethnographic and computational methods in four countries.

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ONLINE MISOGYNY

“Understanding, Detecting, and Mitigating Online Misogyny Against Politically Active Women” is a new multiyear interdisciplinary project funded by BIDT.

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

This global project uncovers AI cultures through anthropological lenses.

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GLOBAL DIGITAL MEDIA CULTURES AND EXTREME SPEECH

Recent political upheavals in Europe and the US have highlighted the paradoxical nature of contemporary digital communication.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EXTREME SPEECH

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.

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ONLINE MEDIA CULTURES AND MIDDLE CLASS POLITICS

The project explores the vibrant forms of Internet enabled debate cultures and political participation in urban India.

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INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATION

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.

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ONLINE MEDIA AND THE INDIAN HINDU DIASPORA IN EUROPE

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.

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ONLINE SPEECH AND INTERMEDIARY LIABILITIES

The project ethnographically examines emerging regulatory practices around online speech restrictions and civil society contestations in India.

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INTERNET MEMES AND THE POLITICS OF NATIONAL BELONGING

This project will analyze the production and circulation of memes.

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ONLINE MEDIA AND THE INDIAN MUSLIM DIASPORA IN EUROPE

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.

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