Affective Temporalities of Digital Hate Cultures

Abstract

The chapter offers an overview of recentresearch on digital hate speech, points out the relevance of the digital mediaenvironment for the growth of hate speech, and notes a shift in hate speechresearch from extreme to ordinary hate speech. The chapter then moves onto introduce the main concepts: temporality and affective publics. Theseconcepts are applied in the two case studies that follow: the inward- orientedhate speech on the Facebook site of a Finnish far- right group, Soldiers ofOdin, and the outward- oriented hate speech in the context of a Twitterdebate on racism.