Hate online: The creation of the “Other”

Q2 Arts and Humanities
Maloba Wekesa
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Abstract Social media has redefined the thinking around the capacity and intensity of interaction among individuals and groups of people across national and international borders. Messages on social media are instantaneous, unhinged to interpretation and inherently dialogic. Through app designs that encourage near addiction to use in various platforms, it is becoming more probable that public debates and social protests start, are fanned and may even be resolved online in these platforms. Many state actors including politicians, religious leaders and social commentators have exploited social media to drive their agenda; personal or otherwise. The anonymity and direct accessibility granted by social media to these actors have given them a brazen green light to promote hate online and a platform for divisive and anarchist agenda. In this paper, I explore the dynamics of hate in social media; how the “Other” is created and used as the target for hate online using the case of electioneering in Kenya. I will attempt to provide a structure profile of social media communication in Kenya during the electioneering period while correlating this to the functional features that facilitated hate on social media. I will deconstruct how the “Other” is created by examining discourse arguments and the underlying subjective benefits in the creation of the “Other”. I will then show how anonymity and publicity interact to promote the process of hate online. This paper employs a phenomenological approach, first propounded by Edmund Husserl, to illustrate how misinformation creates the “Other” and to profile how hate that is spread online is a by-product of this misinformation. The research validity in this paper is premised on the currency of social media as a new dynamic in communication requiring rigorous academic inquiry.
网络仇恨:“他者”的创造
社交媒体重新定义了人们对跨越国家和国际边界的个人和群体之间互动的能力和强度的思考。社交媒体上的信息是即时的,不受解释和内在对话的影响。通过应用程序的设计,鼓励人们在各种平台上近乎上瘾地使用,公共辩论和社会抗议越来越有可能在这些平台上开始、被煽动,甚至可能在网上得到解决。许多国家行为者,包括政治家、宗教领袖和社会评论员,都利用社交媒体来推动他们的议程;个人的或其他的。社交媒体赋予这些行动者的匿名性和可直接访问性,为他们在网上宣传仇恨开了绿灯,并为分裂和无政府主义议程提供了平台。在本文中,我探讨了社交媒体中仇恨的动态;“他者”如何被创造出来,并以肯亚选举为例,成为网路仇恨的目标。我将尝试提供肯尼亚选举期间社交媒体传播的结构概况,同时将其与社交媒体上促进仇恨的功能特征联系起来。我将通过考察话语论证和创造“他者”的潜在主观利益,解构“他者”是如何被创造出来的。然后,我将展示匿名和公开如何相互作用,促进网上仇恨的进程。本文采用了埃德蒙·胡塞尔(Edmund Husserl)首先提出的现象学方法,来说明错误信息是如何创造“他者”的,并分析了在线传播的仇恨是如何成为这种错误信息的副产品的。本文的研究有效性的前提是,社交媒体作为一种新的传播动态,需要严格的学术探究。
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Lodz Papers in Pragmatics
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics
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