For Digital Dignity

15/01/2026

Media and communication lie at the heart of ongoing global turbulences, shaping threats to democratic systems as well as social movements of resistance. Center for Digital Dignity - together with the UNC Center for Information, Technology and Public Life and Center for Information Integrity in Africa - is hosting a preconference at ICA 2026 in South Africa. We invite papers for this in-person, full-day event. Registration is free.
Deadline for submission: February 6th, 2026.
Submission link: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSe0AuFGBkh6CZ.../viewform
Call: https://citap.unc.edu/international-communication.../

04/10/2024

A new open access journal on AI from the Cambridge University Press comes to us at an important time. The journal has guest edited themed issues, and the latest call is on archives and AI:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-forum-on-ai-culture-and-society/announcements/call-for-papers/ai-and-archives
Pleased to join the editorial board with a great group of scholars. Thanks to editors-in-chief Tobias Blanke and Georgina Born for the invitation. If you have wish to propose themed issues, do get in touch.

30/09/2024

Very happy to receive a new Harvard fellowship and return to the beautiful campus. Spending time now with a fantastic cohort of researchers at the Berkman Klein Center. Each day is a new learning, a new stimulation. Will be speaking on 9 October with Joe Walther about his new co-edited book, Social Processes of Hate. Its a hybrid event:

The Berkman Klein Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions.

27/03/2024

This UN commissioned research paper provides a global view of digital technology and extreme speech and an extensive set of recommendations to tackle digital hate.

27/03/2024

Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech
can be fully downloaded here:
https://publish.iupress.indiana.edu/projects/digital-hate

Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary perspective on hateful language online. Moving beyond Euro-American allegations of "fake news," contributors draw attention to local idioms and practices and explore the profound implications for how community is imagined, enacted, and brutally enforced around the world. With a cross-cultural framework nuanced by ethnography and field-based research, the volume investigates a wide range of cases—from anti-immigrant memes targeted at Bolivians in Chile to trolls serving the ruling AK Party in Turkey—to ask how the potential of extreme speech to talk back to authorities has come under attack by diverse forms of digital hate cultures.

Offering a much-needed global perspective on the "dark side" of the internet, Digital Hate is a timely and critical look at the raging debates around online media's failed promises.

The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale. Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first d...

15/07/2019

Special section "Extreme speech and global digital cultures" in International Journal of Communication edited by us is just out! a stellar lineup of authors Matti Pohjonen;Carole McGranahan;Nell Haynes;Peter Hervik;Iginio Gagliardone;Alexandra Deem;Ronan Lee;Omar Al-Ghazzi
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc
introduction with Matti Pohjonen: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/9102/2710
my article: "Nationalism in the digital age: Fun as a meta-practice of extreme speech"
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/9105/2715

29/06/2019

We’ve recently published episode 16 of Online Gods. We’d like to thank you all for listening to the first season, especially those who’ve been in touch in various ways.
In the meantime we’re really excited to announce a new partnership with EPW Engage. An online initiative of Economic and Political Weekly, EPW Engage is a really wonderful fit for the Online Gods. Not only do they explore the digital as a medium for publishing (as we do), but also as an enabler of new methodologies and conceptual explorations (again, as we do). EPW Engage are going to be republishing the entire first season of Online Gods and, when we meet to plan the new season, we’ll do so with them in mind.

http://www.fordigitaldignity.com/onlinegods/

29/06/2019

We’ve recently published episode 16 of Online Gods.

In the meantime we’re really excited to announce a new partnership with EPW Engage. An online initiative of Economic and Political Weekly, EPW Engage is a really wonderful fit for the Online Gods. Not only do they explore the digital as a medium for publishing (as we do), but also as an enabler of new methodologies and conceptual explorations (again, as we do). EPW Engage are going to be republishing the entire first season of Online Gods and, when we meet to plan the new season, we’ll do so with them in mind.

http://www.fordigitaldignity.com/onlinegods/

18/06/2019

Online Gods – A Podcast about Digital Cultures in India and Beyond

This month we’re talking with Iginio Gagliardone about Technopolitics and Swati about the Indian Atheists.

Research Project ONLIINERPOL at LMU Munich examining digital media, nationalism, extreme speech and religious politics. India, the diaspora, and beyond.