<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>-- The editors of this volume are mid- to senior-level scholars who each have significant publications on digital hate and extreme speech. The collection arises out of a conference which received EU funding to study the rise and spread of extreme speech in the digital age. -- Any good work on digital extreme speech would be useful in an era of right-wing nationalism, rampant racism, and online calls for violence. What makes this collection particularly significant, though, is its focus on expanding the conversation to encompass a more global outlook. In doing so, it encourages readers to have a fuller and more nuanced understanding of the ways in which the Internet operates across the world. -- Methodologically and theoretically, it combines the lens of media anthropology and communication studies. This makes it a unique contribution to anthropology and communication studies, advancing as well growing scholarly interests in digital politics and online communication among sociologists, political scientists, international studies and development studies experts. -- The audience for the work is upper level undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars working in global communications, new media studies, international studies, anthropology and sociology as it relates to media and the Internet, and political science. The work would also appeal to media activists, NGOs engaged in hate speech interventions and peacebuilding, and governmental and media organizations.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the internet as a liberation technology is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale.</b></p><p><i>Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech</i> provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary perspective on hateful language online. Moving beyond Euro-American allegations of fake news, contributors draw attention to local idioms and practices and explore the profound implications for how community is imagined, enacted, and brutally enforced around the world. With a cross-cultural framework nuanced by ethnography and field-based research, the volume investigates a wide range of cases--from anti-immigrant memes targeted at Bolivians in Chile to trolls serving the ruling AK Party in Turkey--to ask how the potential of extreme speech to talk back to authorities has come under attack by diverse forms of digital hate cultures.</p><p>Offering a much-needed global perspective on the dark side of the internet, <i>Digital Hate</i> is a timely and critical look at the raging debates around online media's failed promises.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at LMU Munich where she leads two multiyear projects on digital politics and artificial intelligence funded by the European Research Council. She is author of <i>Making News in Global India</i> and coeditor (with S. McDowell) of <i>Media as Politics in South Asia</i>.</p><p>Iginio Gagliardone is a media scholar researching the emergence of distinctive models of the information society in the Global South and Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of <i>The Politics of Technology in Africa</i>; <i>China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet;</i> and <i>Countering Online Hate Speech</i>.</p><p>Peter Hervik is an anthropologist and migration scholar affiliated with the Free University of Copenhagen and the Network of Independent Scholars of Education. His publications include <i>The Annoying Difference: The Emergence of Danish Neonationalism, Neoracism, and Populism in the Post-1989 World</i>.</p></p>