Eurosodom : examining weaponized sexuality and gender-based narratives in Russian and pro-Russian disinformation

Cushman, Ellery Grace

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“…The second disinformation campaign was driven by the Russian government, using an LGBTQ contagion threat, which suggests that sexual orientation can spread like a "disease" through deliberate outside influences such as contact with LGBTQ individuals; exposure to "LGBTQ propaganda", including printed materials, videos, and images of LGBTQ symbols; legalization of gay marriage, etc. (Cushman, 2020). We hypothesize that LGBTQ contagion threat narratives were aimed to radicalize Russian men who were insecure about their masculinity.…”

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Deadly Disinformation

Moskalenko

Romanova

2022

JICW

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Viral online disinformation is misleading content that is generated to manipulate public opinion and to circulate rapidly in the digital space. Although viral disinformation has become an instrument for radicalization, the specific psychological mechanisms by which disinformation can be weaponized––wielded as mobilizing and radicalizing political tools––are not yet well-understood. In this paper, we establish the potential of concerted disinformation efforts to impact mass radicalization and political violence, first through historical precedents of deadly disinformation campaigns, then in modern-day examples from the USA and Russia. Comparing and contrasting political effects of two recent disinformation campaigns, QAnon’s #SaveTheChildren campaign in the USA, and anti-LGBTQ disinformation campaign in Russia, this paper highlights the significance of LGBTQ contagion threat—a notion that people can be “turned” into LGBTQ through deliberate outside influence. The psychological and political consequences of such messaging, its main target audience, and vulnerability factors rendering individuals especially susceptible to its radicalizing effects are discussed.

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Moskalenko

Romanova

2022

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Shame on You!

Rodriguez

2022

Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies

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This chapter is a philosophical essay on how digital ethnography can shed light upon digital hate (especially homicidal hate) and self-harm. The author will do it by attending to the planned (ex)termination of a physical and social individual by herself or by the few ones' havoc against the rest of the people. Likewise, the author will meditate on the reality of lobbies and parties' silent wars and liberticide from different perspectives (post-structuralist, feminist, etc.) to attain a plural view on it while observing the role of digital ethnography in societies ranging from Indonesia to Spain. Therefore, it's an original study that embraces a unique scope of the unwilling ending of human existence and personas from a different and non-politicised angle.

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Eurosodom : examining weaponized sexuality and gender-based narratives in Russian and pro-Russian disinformation

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