The contribution focuses on hate speech and manifestations of violence, highlighting the urgency of adequate pedagogical and educational responses in a complex and unpredictable social context. From this perspective, the authors analyse how hatred and violence, also spread through digital platforms…

The osmotic relationship between the online and offline dimensions transforms hostile words traveling on social networks into physical and psychological violence. Given this, the essay will discuss, through the lens of the decolonial option, the sociological and pedagogical significance of cultural…

The paper aims to denounce the forms of online hate speech (Pasta, 2019, pp. 173-190; Santerini, 2021, pp. 64-74) promoted since 2016 by the US far-right movement Comicsgate (Condis & Stanfill, 2022, pp. 953-980) against the recent comic book production published by DC and Marvel, accused of…

In 2023, the term feminicide was elected “word of the year”, encouraging, even more, reflection on a complex phenomenon (Dawson, Angus & Zecha, 2024; Radford & Russell, 1992; Ulivieri, 2013; 2016). A phenomenon that frequently represents the last act of stories of violence perpetrated…

Recovering the suggestions of Martin Buber (1991; 1997) about the education to confront and dialogue, the contribution aims to outline the opportunities for experimentation in the classroom the Debate (Cinganotto, Mosa & Panzavolta, 2019) – integrating the techniques of hate contrast,…

Crossmediality is metamorphosing digital environments into authentic existential dimensions by immersing us in fluid realities (Floridi, 2015), where generational transitions are delineated through a symbolic alphabetic evolution that leads digitally advanced natives back to the first letter of the…

Social withdrawal, social media addiction and relationship difficulties seem to be the behavioural figures characterising adolescence. On the other hand, the compelling desire to express oneself and to have one's opinions recognised is of paramount importance during the developmental age. In this…

Hate speech can manifest itself through subtle (Faloppa, 2020), latent, and symbolic modalities that seem apparently harmless. The quietly performative and violent nature of this form of hate speech contributes to perpetuating marginalization, affecting women, LGBTQIA+ people, disabled people,…

This paper relies on the hermeneutics of Michel Foucault's thought to explore the structure of hate speech and identify how procedures of exclusion operate in the formation of online and offline discourse. Taking this framework as a starting point, we observe how the digital world has transformed…

Hate speech, a particularly widespread phenomenon especially against women, has deep cultural roots related to gender and social norms that promote the idea of male superiority. This violent and sexist language, by normalizing gender discrimination, represents a crucial challenge for the world of…

The paper presents the results of action research aimed at countering hate speech through a peer-to-peer approach, carried out with a group of young people of Roma and non-Roma origin, engaged in the creation of counter-narratives through visual methods. The text is a narrative and critical analysis…

The article explores some experiences and perceptions of migrants and the local population regarding Belgian media representations. The reference literature and the data collected through semi-structured interviews conducted with local population, refugees and migrants in the Flanders region, have…

This contribution moves from a transfeminist perspective to read and deconstruct hate speech and its repercussions in the educational field from a pedagogical and intersectional point of view (Crenshaw, 1991; Faloppa 2020; Pasta 2021). In response to a real "hate teaching", fueled by a unique…

In the field of migration studies, the Eurocentric and ethnocentric analysis (Said, 1999; Sayad, 2002) has already been extensively explored as a point of demarcation in the power relations between groups, perpetually constructing the enemy and the scapegoat (Eco, 2020). In recent decades, the…

According to the latest Jo Cox Commission report, hate speech disproportionately affects women, migrants, people with disabilities, and the LGBTQ+ community. This paper aims to offer a multidimensional and intersectional interpretive framework to guide the analysis of the hate speech phenomenon,…

Social and new digital media are a fundamental part of students' daily lives, shaping social interactions and perceptions of reality. Inappropriate use of these tools can lead to phenomena such as exposure to inappropriate content, hate speech or flame wars. Young protagonists are often left alone…

The article presents the first results of a partial exploratory investigation, carried out in a non-formal context and based on one of three transgenerational focus groups, aimed at identifying rhetoric about differences and deconstructing hate speech. Within the framework of political and…

This article analyses the project "REASON - REAct in the Struggle against ONline hate speech", which aims to counter online hate speech from a methodological point of view, drawing attention to the training actions of the Research Center on Intercultural Relations of the Catholic University of the…

The glut of information triggered by the network’s devices (intentional or not) risks limiting or preventing the rational procedures that allow their reliability to be verified. We are witnessing a crisis of critical-reflexive skills (Davies, 2019) whose history would be too challenging to…