When hate meets the web in the climate of generalized hatred that we experience daily, by watching the news or talk shows, reading online newspapers, or scrolling our Facebook timelines, it is essential to question educational programs’ actual ability to oppose these shifts. Most importantly, we must start rethinking them, especially given the negative consequences of people’s exposure to hostility, rudeness or incivility, both in online and offline spaces. When it comes to young people, who are more fragile and less equipped than other population groups, such risks are even more real. Although many countries in Europe have undertaken to implement online device projects aimed at tracking down and banning violent content from social media, a purely censored approach does not obviously get to the root of the problem. We must question why many users see hate speech or extreme speech as normal, or even desirable; why they have such a large following and generate such online sharing and dissemination mechanisms. With the aim of better investigating this question, this pilot study focuses on an important segment of society, consisting of young people who grew up with Internet, in order to analyze their relationship with violent and aggressive online communication. The goal is to examine the perceptions and meanings attributed by young people to the different types of hostile communication, by assessing the level of acceptability of each of them and its variations, depending on different contexts and actors (interpersonal; online interactions with institutional actors).

Lovari, A., Rega, R. (2019). Young Italians between Cyberbullying and Hate Speech. A Focus on Digital Communication Practices. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Journal Scuola Democratica “Education and postdemocracy”, VOL. 2, Teaching, Learning, Evaluation and Technology (pp.227-233). ASSOCIAZIONE “PER SCUOLA DEMOCRATICA”.

Young Italians between Cyberbullying and Hate Speech. A Focus on Digital Communication Practices

ROSSELLA REGA
2019-01-01

Abstract

When hate meets the web in the climate of generalized hatred that we experience daily, by watching the news or talk shows, reading online newspapers, or scrolling our Facebook timelines, it is essential to question educational programs’ actual ability to oppose these shifts. Most importantly, we must start rethinking them, especially given the negative consequences of people’s exposure to hostility, rudeness or incivility, both in online and offline spaces. When it comes to young people, who are more fragile and less equipped than other population groups, such risks are even more real. Although many countries in Europe have undertaken to implement online device projects aimed at tracking down and banning violent content from social media, a purely censored approach does not obviously get to the root of the problem. We must question why many users see hate speech or extreme speech as normal, or even desirable; why they have such a large following and generate such online sharing and dissemination mechanisms. With the aim of better investigating this question, this pilot study focuses on an important segment of society, consisting of young people who grew up with Internet, in order to analyze their relationship with violent and aggressive online communication. The goal is to examine the perceptions and meanings attributed by young people to the different types of hostile communication, by assessing the level of acceptability of each of them and its variations, depending on different contexts and actors (interpersonal; online interactions with institutional actors).
2019
978-88-944888-1-4
Lovari, A., Rega, R. (2019). Young Italians between Cyberbullying and Hate Speech. A Focus on Digital Communication Practices. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of the Journal Scuola Democratica “Education and postdemocracy”, VOL. 2, Teaching, Learning, Evaluation and Technology (pp.227-233). ASSOCIAZIONE “PER SCUOLA DEMOCRATICA”.
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