Contesting hate : Digital counter-narratives against Islamophobia - Dr John Richardson

Contesting hate draws on a unique five-year dataset, which includes social media data, interviews with digital activists and mainstream media analysis, generated by the project `#ContestingIslamophobia: Representation and Appropriation in Mediated Activism'. This book provides an in-depth analysis of how social media have been used to contest the circulation of racialised Islamophobia, in relation to a range of events wherein Islamophobic narratives have been yoked to white supremacism, Hindu nationalism and polarising `culture wars' debates. Focusing on archetypal `trigger events' that have resulted in the intensification of Islamophobic discourse - the Christchurch white supremacist terrorist attacks, Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic - we identify key actors and networks involved in these narratives, and foreground successful (and less successful) counter-narrative tactics for contesting hate. In the process, we set out a new theoretical and methodological framework for conceptualising and researching digital discrimination and activism. -- .