Affective Temporalities of Digital Hate Cultures

Abstract

The chapter offers an overview of recent<br/>research on digital hate speech, points out the relevance of the digital media<br/>environment for the growth of hate speech, and notes a shift in hate speech<br/>research from extreme to ordinary hate speech. The chapter then moves on<br/>to introduce the main concepts: temporality and affective publics. These<br/>concepts are applied in the two case studies that follow: the inward- oriented<br/>hate speech on the Facebook site of a Finnish far- right group, Soldiers of<br/>Odin, and the outward- oriented hate speech in the context of a Twitter<br/>debate on racism.