Description
Technological developments, such as new social media like Twitter, increased the pressure towards growing interdependence and have presented humankind with a civilizing task/problem: a collective learning process about changes in the social standard of self-regulation. A related challenge is the effectiveness of legally enforced regulation for online and offline social spaces. Twitter, and other new and participatory social media, set in motion a forward spurt of a civilizing process but also triggered a move towards de-civilization. For many people today, having a social media account has become a part of themselves, an adjunct to one's personal and professional life (sociologists included!) that widened the freedom of communication for everyone. This paper will draw on Elias's work on technization and civilization to make some preliminary observations about online hate/abuse on the Twitter platform organised around the global game of football. Insights will be presented from work underway within a UK-Irish funded research project - Tackling Online Hate in Football (www.tohif.com) - on the figurational dynamics and their implications for the social standard of self-regulation.| Period | 8 Dec 2022 → 10 Dec 2022 |
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| Event title | The Fantasy-Reality Continuum: Science, Religion, Politics, Culture |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | PolandShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |