VOX-Pol is pleased to share the latest online workshop on “Borderline Online Content” which took place in June 2024. The workshop is hosted by Brigitte Naderer, Senior Researcher at the Medical University of Vienna, Heidi Schulze Research Associate at LMU Munich, and Diana Rieger, Professor at LMU Munich. The presenters will speak on topics around borderline, ‘hard to regulate’, content in the following four talks:
Heidi Schulze & Simon Greipl “A Little Less Hate, But a Lot More Harm – Fear Speech as Strategic Borderline Communication”
Hannah Rose: “Hybridised Online Hate and Extremism in the Israel/Gaza Conflict”
Ursula Schmid “Legitimizing hostility through humor: Perceptions and effects of humorous hate speech on social media”
Broderick McDonald “Lawful but Awful: Borderline Content and Human Rights”