
ENCRYPTED MESSAGING AND EXTREME SPEECH
Online disinformation and “extreme speech” are destabilizing global democracies.
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 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. The project will ethnographically chart particular social media sites and user groups (Facebook/Twitter or website/online discussion groups).
Lead Researcher: Jayana Jain

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

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 funded by BIDT.