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18/09/2020
Şeyma Özkan
Call for Abstracts: 'International Conference on Hate Speech and Discrimination' LAST SUBMISSION: SEPT 21
Hrant Dink Foundation will hold the online conference titled 'International Hate Speech and Discrimination Conference' on December 11-12, 2020 in collaboration with Friedrich Naumann Foundation. We kindly ask applicants to fill the form on hrantdink.org until September 21, 2020.
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13/09/2020
Lisa Blasch
Neuerscheinung: Politiker*innen als Figuren in der digitalen Mediengesellschaft
Neu erschienen:
Blasch, Lisa (2020): Politiker*innen als Figuren in der digitalen Mediengesellschaft. Ein diskurslinguistischer Untersuchungsrahmen. Berlin: Peter Lang.
(Bd. 44 „Sprache im Kontext“, Hg. Martin Stegu & Ruth Wodak)
https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/16355
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12/08/2020
Luiz Valerio Trindade
New book: No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media
A new book entitled “No Laughing Matter: Race Joking and Resistance in Brazilian Social Media” has just been released. | Authored by Luiz Valério P. Trindade (Vernon Press, 2020) | https://vernonpress.com/book/861 | SUMMARY: This book examines the main ideological motivations and the embedded meaning of racist jokes on social media aimed at upwardly mobile black women. Trindade argues that “disparagement humour on social media reveals the deep-seated colonial ideologies still present in Brazilian society”.
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