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Influence of Emotions and Feelings in the Construction of Digital Hate Speech: Theoretical and Methodological Principles for Building Inclusive Counter-Narratives

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 7146

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Dear Colleagues,

Cognitivists, sociologists, and anthropologists have been arguing about the direct influence of emotions and feelings on the perception of social reality, on its future projection, on communication, on personal decision-making, on creativity or on the value system. One of the most recognizable spaces in the construction of speech about perceived social reality and in the acquisition of informal learning are social networks.

Educational programs need to incorporate these digital social speeches, particularly those that generate hatred, work with them, and provide the necessary tools to counteract them with democratic values, human rights, and the principles of social justice.

This special issue aims to:

  1. Contribute to the understanding of the constructive emotional mechanisms of digital social speech on socially alive issues;
  2. Identify and recognize the mediating action of emotions, bias, and partiality in social speech;
  3. Offer resources to build alternative social counter-narratives to hate speech.

Research articles based on the application of rigorous quantitative and qualitative methodological designs will be welcome and whose results can contribute significantly to the proposed research topic.

Prof. Dr. Carlos Pérez-González
Prof. Dr. Delfín Ortega-Sánchez
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Keywords

  • emotions
  • social speeches
  • hate speeches
  • counter-narratives
  • democratic values

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The Educational Implications of Populism, Emotions and Digital Hate Speech: A Dialogue with Scholars from Canada, Chile, Spain, the UK, and the US
by Marta Estellés and Jordi Castellví
Sustainability 2020, 12(15), 6034; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156034 - 27 Jul 2020
Cited by 19 | Viewed by 6044
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The recent rise of authoritarian populism, fueled by the spread of digital hate speech and the preeminence of emotions in the political arena, has not aroused much interest among educational researchers. In response to this gap in the literature, the authors of the [...] Read more.
The recent rise of authoritarian populism, fueled by the spread of digital hate speech and the preeminence of emotions in the political arena, has not aroused much interest among educational researchers. In response to this gap in the literature, the authors of the present article aim to provide an overview of the educational implications of the recent wave of authoritarian populism by interviewing a group of experts on democratic citizenship education from various countries and backgrounds. The dialogue resulting from their responses helps to move forward the educational debate on how schools can deal with the emotions and hate speech that motivate support for authoritarian populisms. Full article
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