Sections offered FALL 2023:
#5621 (Lecture)
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GUENTHER JIKELI |
MW 9:10 AM–10:00 AM
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GA 0001
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CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit; class fulfills the College (CASE) Critical Approaches requirement
For permission to enroll in above class, email rsteele@indiana.edu and include your university ID number.
Online hate speech, including white supremacism and antisemitism, is a growing problem for communication on social media. This course covers online conversations in English from across the globe to ask what are prominent forms of such online hate? Who are frequent disseminators and how does hate speech travel across the globe? What are current discussions of dealing with hate speech between censorship, free speech, and counter-speech? What are the historical roots of white supremacism and antisemitism?
We will examine the most significant myths in their historical and social contexts, including conspiracy theories. We will see how some older myths from the European Middle Ages are still relevant today and how they are reformulated and disseminated on social media. In order to do so, we will need to learn about the history of antisemitism, white nationalism, and race theory.
A focus will be on your own research in social media, which will include working in groups to strengthen your teamwork skills. Some of the material you will be reviewing will be deeply offensive in texts and images. We will use a large database of live tweets and analytical tools that we have developed in an ongoing international research project on this topic.