Two-sided Social Media and Bad Faith Political Speech

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-137
Author(s):  
Frank Fagan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
Political Speech

Response to ‘Word choice as political speech’: Hydraulic fracturing is a partisan issue

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-126
Author(s):  
Jill E. Hopke ◽  
Molly Simis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Word Choice ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Opt Out

In 2015, Hopke & Simis published an analysis of social media discourse around hydraulic fracturing. Grubert (2016) offered a commentary on the research, highlighting the politicization of terminology used in the discourse on this topic. The present article is a response to Grubert (2016)’s commentary, in which we elaborate on the distinctions between terminology used in social media discourse around hydraulic fracturing (namely, ‘frack,’ ‘fracking,’ ‘frac,’ and ‘fracing’). Additionally preliminary analysis supports the claim that industry-preferred terminology is severely limited in its reach. When industry actors opt-out of the discourse, the conversation followed by the majority of lay audiences is dominated by activists. exacerbating the political schism on the issue.

Editorial

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2 (Fall 2019)) ◽  
pp. v-viii
Author(s):  
Lesley D. Klaff
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Steady Flow ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Abusive Behavior ◽  
Percent Increase ◽  
The Uk

Antisemitism continues to rise on both sides of the Atlantic. Since the last issue of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism went to press, the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity that advises and represents the UK’s Jewish community on matters of antisemitism, terrorism, extremism, and security, published its mid-year Antisemitic Incidents Report for January–June 2019.1 It recorded 892 antise-mitic incidents in the UK for the first six months of 2019. This is the highest number of incidents the CST has ever recorded in the January to June period of any year and is a 10 percent increase on the 810 incidents recorded for the same period in 2018. The CST has been recording antisemitic incidents since 1984. While these recorded incidents include vio-lent assault, damage to property, and abusive behavior, 36 percent of the 892 total involve social media, with the highest monthly totals of online antisemitism recorded for February and March, the very months when issues relat-ing to Jews and antisemitism were prominent in the news and politics due to the continuing controversy about antisemitism in the Labour Party. Indeed, a further CST report published in August 2019 titled, Engine of Hate: the online networks behind the Labour Party’s antisemitism crisis revealed that the problem of antisemitism in the Labour Party since 2016 has been fueled by a steady flow of antisemitic tweets and posts on social media. These have spread the lie that concerns about antisemitism in the Labour Party are nothing more than a bad faith attempt to smear Corbyn and have also promoted con-spiracy theories about Israel, Zionists, and Jews.

scholarly journals Making up Political People: How Social Media Create the Ideals, Definitions, and Probabilities of Political Speech

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Ananny
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Social Media Platforms

An examination of the principles and techniques that social media platforms use to define and regulate political speech. Uses concepts from Communication, Media Studies, and Science and Technology Studies to investigate how platforms define ideals of citizenship, the politics of the categories they use to define speech, and the role that algorithms and probability play in governing platform speech.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
First Century ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Mother Blame

This book examines the cultural politics of parent-blame in Britain, or more precisely, mother-blame, arguing that the manufacture and circulation of ‘bad parents’ is part of a social, cultural and political rubric that is at once gendered and gendering. It begins with the premise that parent-blame manifests, in part, through the sacralisation and idealisation of some mothers. It also discusses the emergence of the figure of the ‘bad parent’ as a ‘bearer of crisis’ and shows how this figure came to populate public debate, popular culture, policy documents and political speech, everyday conversation, social media and media culture at the turn of the twenty-first century. Finally, it locates the construction of ‘parenting crisis’ within a broader context of neoliberalism. The book contends that the neoliberalisation of parenting disguises and obscures the structural processes and excesses that are widening social inequality and deepening the poverty of those marginalised at the bottom.

scholarly journals “They Got Filters”: Indigenous Social Media, the Settler Gaze, and a Politics of Hope

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512092526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Carlson ◽  
Ryan Frazer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Positive Content

Social media technologies have had ambivalent political implications for Indigenous peoples and communities. On one hand, they constitute new horizons toward which settler colonial forces of marginalization, disenfranchisement, and elimination can extend and strengthen their power. On the other hand, social media have also offered opportunities to resist and reject the violence of colonization and its ideological counterparts of domination and racial superiority, and work toward imagining and realizing alternative futures. In this article, we draw on insights from settler colonial studies and affect theory to chart the politics of “affect” through the stories of Indigenous Australian social media users. We first argue that the online practices of Indigenous social media users are often mediated by an awareness of the ‘settler gaze’—that is, a latent audience of non-Indigenous others observing in bad faith. We then outline two responses to this presence described by participants: policing the online behaviors of friends and family, and circulating hopeful, inspiring, and positive content. If “policing” is about delimiting the things of which online bodies are capable, then an affective politics of hope is about expanding a body’s capacity to act and imagining other possible futures for Indigenous people.

Troll Farm

2019 ◽  
pp. 392-419
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Reynard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Commercial Speech ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Legal Remedies ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Life Threatening

Anonymity can create cowards. Perceptions of mistreatment can create an urge for revenge. And online social media platforms create opportunities to exact vengeance. This chapter provides an overview of online character assassination as it has evolved within a profusion of social media sites offering forums for uncensored airing of opinions. When opinions constitute political speech, they can be life-threatening. When opinions are commercial speech rating character and competence of professionals, digital defamation can threaten livelihood. In commercial arenas, victims often feel helpless to protect their reputations; however, some legal remedies may be available. This essay investigates the nature of abusive communication online, the role anonymity plays in digital attacks, and psychological characteristics associated with trolls and cyber-bullies. Case studies of individuals' efforts to defend themselves from online character assassination illustrate concepts discussed and strategies being used for online reputational self-defense.

Troll Farm

2020 ◽  
pp. 230-265
Author(s):  
Leslie J. Reynard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Commercial Speech ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Self Defense ◽  
Legal Remedies ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Life Threatening

Anonymity can create cowards. Perceptions of mistreatment can create an urge for revenge. And online social media platforms create opportunities to exact vengeance. This chapter provides an overview of online character assassination as it has evolved within a profusion of social media sites offering forums for uncensored airing of opinions. When opinions constitute political speech, they can be life-threatening. When opinions are commercial speech rating character and competence of professionals, digital defamation can threaten livelihood. In commercial arenas, victims often feel helpless to protect their reputations; however, some legal remedies may be available. This essay investigates the nature of abusive communication online, the role anonymity plays in digital attacks, and psychological characteristics associated with trolls and cyber-bullies. Case studies of individuals' efforts to defend themselves from online character assassination illustrate concepts discussed and strategies being used for online reputational self-defense.

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