Decoding Antisemitism by Matthias J Becker

Decoding Antisemitism by Matthias J Becker

This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit and implicit (or coded) forms. Developed through years of on-the-ground analysis of over 100,000 authentic comments posted by social media users in the UK, France, Germany and beyond, the book introduces and explains the central historical, conceptual and linguistic-semiotic elements of 46 antisemitic concepts, stereotypes and speech acts. The guide was assembled by researchers working on the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at Technische Universität Berlin, building on existing basic definitions of antisemitism, and drawing on expertise in various fields. Using authentic examples taken from social media over the past four years, it sets out a pioneering step-by-step approach to identifying and categorising antisemitic content, providing guidance on how to recognise a statement as antisemitic or not. This book will be an invaluable tool through which researchers, students, practitioners and social media moderators can learn to recognise contemporary antisemitism online – and the structural aspects of hate speech more generally – in all its breadth and diversity.

Matthias J. Becker is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at the Technical University Berlin, Germany where he currently leads the interdisciplinary project Decoding Antisemitism: An AI-driven Study on Hate Speech and Imagery Online. He is also Research Fellow at CENTRIC, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies (HCGES) at the University of Haifa and the Vidal Sassoon Center at Hebrew University, Israel. In his studies, he focuses on the pragmalinguistic analysis of hate speech in mainstream society and on the internet.

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ISBN 13	9783031492402
Title	Decoding Antisemitism
Author	Matthias J Becker
Series	Postdisciplinary Studies In Discourse
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer International Publishing AG
Year published	2025-10-30
Number of pages	556
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