Tackling online misogyny in political campaigns: promise and limitations of artificial intelligence

Udupa, Sahana und Koch, Luise (2024): Tackling online misogyny in political campaigns: promise and limitations of artificial intelligence. In: Feminist Media Studies, Bd. 24, Nr. 6: S. 1428-1434

Abstract

Studies on the resurgence of right-wing regimes in the Global South have lately offered more evidence for how misogynistic attacks against dissenting voices constitute important elements of populist rhetoric online. A significant recent trend is the active incorporation of gendered narratives within digital influence and disinformation strategies aimed at securing political gains for sponsoring interest groups. Based on the case of online misogyny in Brazil under Bolsonaro, this article probes the promise and limitations of technological solutions, touted especially in the latest wave of excitement around artificial intelligence, in addressing emerging forms of gendered speech. It suggests that a far-reaching approach to misogynistic political campaigns requires that nuanced message-level intervention in terms of community-centric artificial intelligence-assisted moderation systems should be combined with measures to disrupt online and offline networks that right-wing regimes have raised to spread disinformation and extreme speech.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: 957442
• EU-Projekte: Horizon 2020 > ERC Grants > ERC Proof of Concept Grant > ERC Grant 957442: AI4Dignity - Collaborative AI Counters Hate
• Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde > Ethnologie
• Themengebiete: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 300 Sozialwissenschaft, Soziologie ; 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 320 Politik ; 400 Sprache > 400 Sprache
• ISSN: 1468-0777
• Sprache: Englisch