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. In this interdisciplinary project, mixed method approaches to three case studies in Germany, India, and Brazil will be employed to better understand the content and dynamics of online misogyny against politically active women and to develop methods for early identification of such emerging dynamics. The project team will collaborate with subject matter experts in India and Brazil as well as with media partners and affected female politicians. With citizen social science tools, the scientists will involve the general public in the process of identifying emerging campaigns of online misogyny against politically active women. This project will also develop policy briefs and regulatory approaches to address online misogyny.
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
