Project description
Billions of people use social media every day. Many of them discuss political topics online. Radicalisation, extreme speech and, in particular, online misogyny against politically active women have become alarming negative features of online discussions.
The interdisciplinary project team conducted three comparative case studies in Germany, India, and Brazil to better understand the content and impact of extreme speech directed at political actors and to develop methods for the early detection of such emerging dynamics.
This resulted in close cooperation with experts in these countries, as well as with media houses, and affected female politicians. The public was also involved in identifying new campaigns of online hostility against politically active women, using citizen participation tools.
In 2023, the project team presented the results of a survey of members of the European Parliament in Brussels. In addition, numerous publications and recommendations for action were published with the aim of combating hate speech and, in particular, digital misogynistic violence.
Project team
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pfeffer
Professor of Computational Social Science and Big Data, Technical University of Munich
Prof. Dr. Sahana Udupa
Professor of Media Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich
Prof. Dr. Janina Isabel Steinert
Professur of Global Health, TUM School of Governance | Technical University of Munich
Dr. Raji Ghawi
Postdoc Researcher, Bavarian School of Public Policy | Technical University of Munich
Leah Nann
Research Associate, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich
Luise Koch
PhD student, Professorship of Global Health at the School of Social Sciences and Technology | Technical University of Munich
Dr. Oeendrila Lahiri Gerold
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich
Dr. Angelina Voggenreiter
Postdoctoral Researcher, TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology | Technical University of Munich