Communicative Peacebuilding: Discursive Civility and Safe Discursive Spaces

Pukallus, Stefanie

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“…This includes misinformation, rumours, insults, satire, mockery, misogyny, religious intolerance, dehumanisation, stereotyping, generalisations and prejudice. Communicatively speaking, hate speech "is best understood as comprising three communicative dimensions: styles of public communication, rhetorical devices of hate speech and their communicative vehicles for dissemination" (Pukallus 2024b). What this means is that they use a specific style of public communication-pseudo-scientific, affective-emotional, commanding-assertive, pseudo-deliberative rational or teleologicalprophetic-to get their message of hate across.…”

Section: Defining Hate Speech On Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Combating Hate Speech on Social Media: Applying Targeted Regulation, Developing Civil-Communicative Skills and Utilising Local Evidence-Based Anti-Hate Speech Interventions

Pukallus,

Arthur

2024

Journalism and Media

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Social media platforms such as Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) set their core aim as bringing people and communities closer together. Yet, they resemble a digital communicative battleground in which hate speech is increasingly present. Hate speech is not benign. It is the communicative driver of group oppression. It is therefore imperative to disarm this digital communicative battlefield by (a) regulating and redesigning social media platforms to prevent them from playing an active and enabling role in the dissemination of hate speech and (b) empowering citizen-users and local civil associations to recognise and actively counter hate speech. This top-down and bottom-up approach necessarily enforces responsibility and builds capacity. This requires that we adapt and combine three aspects of communicative peacebuilding: first, the (re)building of civil-communicative institutions; second, the use of digital citizenship educational programmes to support the development of civil-communicative skills for using social media; and third, the identification and use of local civil capacity and knowledge, which manifests in the present context in the use of local evidence-based anti-hate speech interventions. We argue that this interdisciplinary combinatorial approach has the potential to be effective because it combines two things: it places responsibility on relevant actors to both make social media safer and to navigate it harmlessly and responsibly; and it simultaneously helps build the capacity for actively identifying and countering hate speech in civil societies.

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Section: Defining Hate Speech On Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Combating Hate Speech on Social Media: Applying Targeted Regulation, Developing Civil-Communicative Skills and Utilising Local Evidence-Based Anti-Hate Speech Interventions

Pukallus,

Arthur

2024

Journalism and Media

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“…Peace is best understood as the ability of civil society to peacefully and non-violently cooperate even in times of deep disagreement and division through the routinised and confident upholding of civil norms. Of these there exist three categories: (a) assent to civil peace, (b) substantive civility and (c) building civil capacity and civil competencies (see Harrison & Pukallus, 2023; Pukallus, 2022). Each of these come with a different set of symbols, metaphors, concepts, vocabulary and images that a community uses in their performance of peaceful cooperation.…”

Section: Part I: Key Concepts: Soap Opera Edutainment Civil Norm Buil...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It concerns daily interactions with regard to four aspects: (1) ‘a concern for the common good’ (Shils, 1997, p. 345) that extends beyond self-interest and can act as a motivating factor in the building of practices of cooperation and association; (2) the equal civil standing of all citizen; the respect for which manifest in society's code of conduct for public life; (3) as a regulator of relationships between citizens and finally (4), as a regulator of the way in which disagreements and disputes are carried out between citizens. Substantive civility requires of citizens ‘the readiness to moderate particular, individual or parochial interests’ (Shils, 1997, p. 345), to express oneself on such a way that displays ‘dignity-as-respectfulness’ (Pukallus, 2022). Overall, it is through the practice of substantive civility that both trust and solidarity can be generated.…”

Section: Part I: Key Concepts: Soap Opera Edutainment Civil Norm Buil...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At an individual level, it concerns citizens’ recognition of the value and necessity to form co-alignments, coalitions and associations; that is, to work with other in the pursuit of a common goal and for the benefit of society as a whole rather than be driven by mere self-interest. It also relates to civil competencies which include the communicative skills needed to ensure that deep disagreement and division do not lead to violence but can be engaged with agonistically in a variety of communicative formats (also Pukallus, 2022). This third category also extends to the political competences of a citizens often exercised in elections and voting.…”

Section: Part I: Key Concepts: Soap Opera Edutainment Civil Norm Buil...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Peacebuilding and Social Change Through Soap Opera: The Two Elements of Moral Authority of ‘Team Kenya’

Pukallus,

Brouwers

2023

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development

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Thus far, the success of soap operas in peacebuilding and their contribution to social change have been attributed to the edutainment format they usually take. The edutainment format is indeed an essential element of success, but it alone does not reveal the basis for soap operas’ influence on audiences and societies. We therefore argue that for soap operas to have a transformative peacebuilding effect, to contribute to the learning of non-violent engagement with conflict and thereby to enable social change and resilience to violent conflict within societies, they need to do more than educate and entertain: they need to acquire moral authority. This moral authority can only be derived from the combination of two elements: first, edutainment and second, civil norm building. The second element, though indispensable, has thus far not formed part of our understanding of the success of soap operas. To illustrate our argument, we take the soap opera Team Kenya which was created following the 2007–2008 post-election violence to help Kenyans overcome their ethnic-tribal identity conflicts in non-violent ways as a case study.

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“…Journalism holds civil power in its ability to position events in terms of their import to civil sphere concerns and endorse change in accordance with civil society values (Alexander, 2006: 80). This has been investigated in contexts of both democratic societies (Harrison, 2019) and post-civil war solidarity building efforts (Pukallus, 2021). Another reason scholars have focused on journalism is the need to reconcile the argument that such ‘factual media of communication (Alexander, 2006: 80)’ actually operate in an interpretative, judgmental, and non-empirical manner (Alexander et al, 2016).…”

Section: Cinema As a Communicative Institution Of The Civil Spherementioning

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Encountering the Civil Sphere Through Cinema: The Cinematic Gap as a Pathway to Civil Evaluation and Repair

Dong

2022

Cultural Sociology

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Despite being one of the most influential forms of media, cinema has yet to be theorized as a communicative institution of the civil sphere. Contrary to commonsense understandings of cinema as a medium for purifying representations of civil sphere ideals, this paper proposes a theoretical framework that opens up the black box of cinematic performance and theorizes processes of civil interpretation and evaluation: the cinematic gap. The cinematic gap describes an experiential space afforded by the medium’s fictional nature. Because cinema is ‘just fiction’, viewers are distanced from the ‘real civil sphere’ and permitted a space for thoughtful rumination on a cinematic performance’s presentation of civil sphere matters that is less reductive, more thoughtful, and more empathetic. As viewers can then apply these insights on the real civil sphere, the cinematic gap provides a space for thoughtful civil engagement and pathways to civil repair. This paper also identifies components of the cinematic gap which determine its ‘size’ – i.e., degree of distancing from the real civil sphere – as genre treatment and grounding in social reality. This theory is generated from responses to the 2019 Korean film Parasite, a highly successful black comedy-thriller that deploys and subverts commentary on class inequality.

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Communicative Peacebuilding: Discursive Civility and Safe Discursive Spaces

Cited by 4 publications

References 89 publications

Combating Hate Speech on Social Media: Applying Targeted Regulation, Developing Civil-Communicative Skills and Utilising Local Evidence-Based Anti-Hate Speech Interventions

Combating Hate Speech on Social Media: Applying Targeted Regulation, Developing Civil-Communicative Skills and Utilising Local Evidence-Based Anti-Hate Speech Interventions

Peacebuilding and Social Change Through Soap Opera: The Two Elements of Moral Authority of ‘Team Kenya’

Encountering the Civil Sphere Through Cinema: The Cinematic Gap as a Pathway to Civil Evaluation and Repair

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