Everyday Affective Practices Online: Producing, Experiencing and Managing Hate Speech in the Digital Era (HAFFECT)

HAFFECT explores hate speech as an affective practice and part of everyday digital culture. It investigates how emotions connected to hate speech are produced, circulated, experienced, managed and re-used. The project also pays attention to the ways in which digital platforms take part in hosting and creating affective practices around hate speech and how managing hate speech itself has become a business for technology companies.
In the intersection of media, cultural and technology studies, HAFFECT develops theoretical, methodological and empirical understanding of hate speech. This means investigating the complexity and multiplicity of the phenomenon in order to understand the ways it affects individual experiences and society at large.

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Project duration
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Core fields of research
Languages, culture and society
Research areas
Belonging, crises and societal change
Department
Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies
Co-operation
University of Tampere
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Funding
Research Council of Finland

Project description

HAFFECT explores hate speech as an affective practice and part of everyday digital culture. It investigates how emotions connected to hate speech are produced, circulated, experienced, managed and re-used. The project also pays attention to the ways in which digital platforms take part in hosting and creating affective practices around hate speech and how managing hate speech itself has become a business for technology companies.

In the intersection of media, cultural and technology studies, HAFFECT develops theoretical, methodological and empirical understanding of hate speech. This means investigating the complexity and multiplicity of the phenomenon in order to understand the ways it affects individual experiences and society at large.

HAFFECT is a consortium of universities of Tampere and Jyväskylä. PI of the consortium is professor Kaarina Nikunen (TUNI). The sub project is led by senior lecturer Tuija Saresma (JYU).

Research groups

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Research group

Violence Research

Violence is a complex phenomenon, and researching it requires multidisciplinary perspectives.