Hate Speech Towards Roma Children in Digital Space: Discourse Analyses of Users' Comments

Kubiček, Andrej and Marković, Aleksandra (2022) Hate Speech Towards Roma Children in Digital Space: Discourse Analyses of Users' Comments. In: International Scientific Thematic Conference Children and the Challenges of the Digital Environment, Palić, 16-17 June 2022. Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research, Belgrade, pp. 65-82. ISBN 978-86-80756-48-6

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Abstract

The article explores new modes of textual articulation of long-existing discourses towards a specific segment of a racialized ethnic minority, the Roma children. Considering the interactive dynamic nature of digital media portals, which allows users to interact with media producers, algorithms, and themselves by posting comments, authors seek new ways to explain this phenomenon, which further endangers the precarious social position of the youngest Roma. The article shows how the hidden aspects of minority children’s lives are fantasized in the texts (re)generated by the readers, who became producers of media messages through digital technologies. Besides centuries-old stereotypes and interpretations of selective everyday experiences about Roma children, the article points out how irresponsible and unethical journalism can encourage the emergence of hate speech towards a specific group of children already in a disadvantaged social position.

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