Countering Extremists on Social Media: Challenges for Strategic Communication and Content Moderation

Policy & Internet Vol 12 N°1 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.236 

Autor: 

1. Bharath Ganesh: Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands and Oxford Internet Institute, Universityof Oxford, Oxford, UK b.ganesh@rug.nl; 
2. Jonathan Bright: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; jonathan.bright@oii.ox.ac.uk; 

Keywords: social media, extremism, regulation, online platforms, counter messaging, content-moderation, free speech, countering violent extremism, CVE. 

Abstract: Extremist exploitation of social media platforms is an important regulatory question for civil society,government, and the private sector. Extremists exploit social media for a range of reasons—from spreading hateful narratives and propaganda to financing, recruitment, and sharing operational information. Policy responses to this question fit under two headings, strategic communication andcontent moderation. At the center of both of these policy responses is a calculation about how best to limit audience exposure to extremist narratives and maintain the marginality of extremist views, while being conscious of rights to free expression and the appropriateness of restrictions on speech.This special issue on “Countering Extremists on Social Media: Challenges for Strategic Communication and Content Moderation” focuses on one form of strategic communication, countering violent extremism. In this editorial we discuss the background and effectiveness of this approach, and introduce five articles which develop multiple strands of research into responses and solutions to extremist exploitation of social media. We conclude by suggesting an agenda for future research on how multi stake holder initiatives to challenge extremist exploitation of social media are conceived,designed, and implemented, and the challenges these initiatives need to surmount.

Idioma: English. 

Publicación: 16 de marzo del 2020. 

Volumen: Policy & Internet, Vol 12, N°1

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Screening postcolonial intellectuals: cinematic engagements and postcolonial activism.

Transnational Screens, Volume 13, Issue 2 (2022)  https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2022.2094612

Autor: 

1. Sandra Ponzanesi; Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands; S.Ponzanesi@uu.nl; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2085-1094
2. Ana Cristina Mendes; Department of English, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3596-0701

Keywords: Intellectuals; Cinema; Postcolonialism; diaspora; visuality; activism.

Abstract: This special issue proposes new ways of seeing and thinking aboutpostcolonial intellectuals through the frame of transnationalscreens. For this purpose, the issue develops around the twofoldnotion of the intellectual as a filmmaker and the intellectual as anobject of filmmaking. In particular, it focuses on the ways in whichthis interrelationship expands notions of postcolonial theory andpractice regarding the aesthetic and political intervention of intel-lectuals in transnational screen culture. Many postcolonial figureshave been influential not only in rethinking the ways in whichrepresentation should be conceived and theorized but also ininspiring new forms of visuality and aesthetics through their lifeand work. These figures include Frantz Fanon, Assia Djebar, andStuart Hall, and others explored in this issue, such as Toni Morrison,Raoul Peck, Ai Weiwei, and Steve McQueen. The special issue alsoincludes exclusive interviews with Ai Weiwei and Trinh T. Minh-ha,artists, intellectuals, activists, and filmmakers whose engagementwith postcolonial debates, and more broadly with the politics andaesthetics of filmmaking, have contributed to a reshaping of con-temporary postcolonial realities and discourses, in scholarship andthe public sphere. 

Idioma: Inglés. 

Publicación: 30 june 2022

Volumen: Transnational Screens, Volume 13, Issue 2 (2022)

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La carta como elemento de la construcción de una memoria sobre la dictadura en el documental latinoamericano contemporáneo.

Área Abierta. Revista de comunicación audiovisual y publicitaria Vol. 19 N°3 https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/arab.63478 

Autor: Ignacio del Valle Dávila; Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (Brasil); elvalledeignacio@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-0582

Keywords: enunciación epistolar; segunda generación; archivo; memoria; giro subjetivo; dicta-dura

Abstract: This article aims to study the uses of the letter as a discursive strategy and narrative element in contemporary Latin American films directed by relatives of political militants and victims of the repressive apparatuses of the Southern Cone dictatorships. To this end, we analyze the links that interweave both the epistolary enunciation and the letter, in its archival dimension, with the cinema in the first person and the performative modes of the  audiovisual creation. Likewise, we propose different models of the memory of the authoritarian past carried out by these films: the paradigm of resistance, the victim of State terrorism and the collateral victim. 

Resumen: Este artículo tiene como objetivo estudiar los usos de la carta como estrategia discursiva y elemento narrativo en los films latinoamericanos contemporáneos dirigidos por familiares de militantes políticos y víctimas de los aparatos represivos de las dictaduras del Cono Sur. Con ese fin, se analizan los vínculos que entretejen tanto la enunciación epistolar como la carta, en su dimensión archivística, con el cine en primera persona y los modos performativos del audiovisual. Asimismo, se proponen diferentes modelizaciones de la memoria del pasado autoritario emprendidas por estos films: el paradigma de la resistencia, el de la víctima del terrorismo de Estado y el de la víctima colateral.  

Idioma: Español~ Inglés ~Portugués. 

Publicación: 11 de junio 2019 

Volumen: Área Abierta. Revista de comunicación audiovisual y publicitaria Vol. 19 N°3 

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