Social media as the fifth estate: forms of counterspeech against hate speech and disinformation
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Project duration
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Core fields of research
Languages, culture and society
Research areas
Applied language studies for the changing society (profiling area)
Discourses, identities and mobilities
Language in communities and societies
Department
Department of Language and Communication Studies
Centre for Applied Language Studies
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Project description
This project explores counterspeech against hate speech and disinformation on social media. In particular, it compares counterspeech in Finnish and German discussions. One focus is to explore which narratives justifying Russia's war against Ukraine are responded to in Finnish and German counter discourses and how.
Project team
Project leaders
External members
Maria Lähteenmäki
Student
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Kati Dlaske
University Lecturer
University of Helsinki