Narrative logics of hate speech: algorithms of fascist storytelling in the digital age.

仇恨言论的叙事逻辑：数字时代法西斯讲故事的算法。

• 批准号: 2243423
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal College of Art
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2243423
• 关键词: Narrative; logics; hate; speech; algorithms

The art of storytelling, opposed to the 'new' form of communication - information - was supposed to offer counsel and side with 'the epic side of truth, wisdom' (Benjamin: 1955). As a response to the rise of storytelling as a data analysis technique, this practice-led research PhD would examine how stories get hijacked, distorted and misused. It would observe how conspiracy theories, fake news, memes and clickbait operate within the apparently antagonistic dynamics of storytelling vs information. In the age of the digital - a time of accelerated circulation and accumulation of content, narrative, as a particular way of sense-making becomes a critical agent in shaping and changing public opinions. It seems to be urgent to examine not only how big data storytelling is instrumentalised as a political strategy but also how the self-propelled narrative logics play an important role in ideological discourse.In the rise of new fascist narratives, my research will focus on how digital storytelling is utilised to inflict exclusion and hatred, and if it can be used in the context of resistance against fascism. It would be achieved through algorithmic mapping of narrative logics in systems of othering found in digitally transmitted hate speech. To successfully trace the variety of online narrative forms in the context of their ethics and epistemology, I will also create participatory gameplay simulations based on memes, clickbait psychology tests, and Facebook Inc's 'story' tool. The analysis of Internet hate speech would be supplemented with online interviews with members of the far right in Poland.Starting with the study of ideological discourse, language structures and fascist new speech, I would focus on discourse analysis of Web content. Using social network analysis and Natural Language Processing techniques such as sentiment, lexical, topic, and implicit bias analysis, I would examine the storytelling mechanisms found in the government-controlled media, online comments, forums, headlines, and popular websites in Poland. Despite the proliferation of new fascist narratives in many European countries in the last ten years, it seems significant to examine those from a country that has remained almost entirely nationally, ethnically and religiously homogenous for the last 70 years. Situating my field research in Poland allows the rejection of commonsensical interpretations positioning the fascist as merely reactionary.My main goal is to examine the processes of opinion-forming: how (some)bodies get attuned to fascist narratives in the context of the libidinal materiality of image(ination) and digitally transmitted ideas. In the further stages of research, this materiality of storytelling will be researched through the creation of a VR gameplay based on the collected data. The VR game would enable me to analyse the whole sensual spectrum of the gathered digital material: visuals, language and sounds, but also reflect on the tactile narrative of online contribution: clicking, tapping, pressing, swiping, scrolling. To fully grasp the politics of these micro-actions in the context of interaction between the individual users and online content, I would initiate a dialogue with the UCL Immersive Virtual Environments Laboratory (part of LAHP).My practice-led interdisciplinary research aims to provide an original contribution to the field of philosophy of data analysis in the context of supra-sensuousness, quantum entanglement and corporality of sense-making. It would map the variety of logics leading to opinion forming: rational, absurdist, commonsensical, instrumentalist and, most importantly, sensuous. Thus, it could not be performed within an institution cultivating rigid divisions between the sciences and humanities. The RCA-based School of Arts & Humanities is a unique place to accommodate my practice-led research PhD combining arts, philosophy and digital humanities.

讲故事的艺术，相对于“新”的交流形式-信息-应该提供咨询和“真理的史诗方面，智慧”（本杰明：1955）。作为对讲故事作为一种数据分析技术兴起的回应，这位以实践为主导的研究博士将研究故事如何被劫持、扭曲和滥用。它将观察阴谋论，假新闻，模因和点击诱饵如何在讲故事与信息的明显对立动态中运作。在数字时代-一个加速流通和内容积累的时代，叙事作为一种特殊的意义形成方式，成为塑造和改变公众舆论的关键因素。不仅要研究大数据叙事如何被工具化为一种政治策略，而且要研究自我推进的叙事逻辑如何在意识形态话语中发挥重要作用。在新法西斯叙事的兴起中，我的研究将集中在数字叙事如何被用来施加排斥和仇恨，以及它是否可以用于抵抗法西斯主义的背景下。这将通过在数字传播的仇恨言论中发现的他者系统中的叙事逻辑的算法映射来实现。为了成功地追踪各种在线叙事形式在其伦理和认识论的背景下，我还将创建基于模因，点击诱饵心理测试和Facebook Inc.的“故事”工具的参与性游戏模拟。对互联网仇恨言论的分析将辅之以对波兰极右翼成员的在线访谈。我将从意识形态话语、语言结构和法西斯新言论的研究入手，重点研究网络内容的话语分析。使用社交网络分析和自然语言处理技术，如情感，词汇，主题和隐式偏见分析，我将研究在政府控制的媒体，在线评论，论坛，头条新闻和流行的网站在波兰中发现的讲故事的机制。尽管在过去十年中，许多欧洲国家出现了新的法西斯主义叙事，但对一个在过去70年中几乎完全保持民族、种族和宗教同质性的国家的法西斯主义叙事进行研究似乎意义重大。在波兰进行实地研究，可以拒绝将法西斯主义者定位为仅仅是反动的常识性解释，我的主要目标是研究意见形成的过程：在图像（ination）和数字传播的思想的力比多物质性的背景下，（一些）身体如何适应法西斯主义叙事。在研究的进一步阶段，将通过基于收集的数据创建VR游戏来研究讲故事的重要性。VR游戏将使我能够分析收集的数字材料的整个感官光谱：视觉，语言和声音，但也反映了在线贡献的触觉叙述：点击，点击，按下，滑动，滚动。为了充分把握这些微行动的政治在个人用户和在线内容之间的互动的背景下，我会发起与UCL沉浸式虚拟环境实验室（LAHP的一部分）的对话。我的实践为主导的跨学科研究的目的是提供一个原始的贡献，在超感官，量子纠缠和感官的物质性的背景下，数据分析的哲学领域。它将描绘出导致意见形成的各种逻辑：理性的，荒谬的，常识的，工具主义的，最重要的是，感性的。因此，它不能在一个培养科学和人文之间严格划分的机构内进行。基于RCA的艺术与人文学院是一个独特的地方，以容纳我的实践为主导的研究博士结合艺术，哲学和数字人文。