Digital violence and hate speech create barriers that deliberately exclude marginalized voices, especially those of women, BIPOC communities, and queer people. Platforms that promise participation and plurality thus become places of invisibility, intimidation, and suppression. Discriminatory algorithms further exacerbate these issues by amplifying sexist, racist, and queerphobic content. Social media algorithms amplify inhumane statements by prioritizing content that generates significant attention, outrage, or interaction, even when it is based on hate, discrimination, or violence.
In her virtual evening presentation, Katharina Mosene sheds light on how these dynamics put democratic publics under pressure and asks what strategies are needed to make digital spaces for discourse more inclusive, safer, and fairer. After the lecture, there will be an opportunity for questions and discussion.
The presentation “Feministische Perspektiven auf die Verengung öffentlicher Diskursräume” [Feminist Perspectives on the Narrowing of Public Discourse in the Digital Age] will be held in German.
