WhatsApp in the World : Disinformation, Encryption, and Extreme Speech.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Udupa, Sahana.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2025.

New York : New York University Press, 2025.

Summary:

A global analysis of the vastly popular instant messaging service Known by the popular nickname "ZapZap" in Brazil and synonymous with the Internet across Africa and South Asia, WhatsApp has emerged as a major means of communication for millions of people around the world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Lived Encryptions: WhatsApp, Disinformation, and Extreme Speech / Sahana Udupa, Herman Wasserman

Part I: Politics of Polarization

1. Extreme Speech, Community Resonance, and Moralities: Ethnographic Notes on the Use of WhatsApp in Brazilian Favelas / Carolina Parreiras

2. Exclusionary Politics and Its Contradictions: Peddling Anti-Immigrant Sentiments through WhatsApp in South Africa / Nkululeko Sibiya, Iginio Gagliardone

3. Deep Extreme Speech: Intimate Networks for Inflamed Rhetoric on WhatsApp / Sahana Udupa

4. Misinformation behind the Scenes: Political Misinformation in WhatsApp Public Groups ahead of the 2022 Constitutional Referendum in Chile / Marcelo Santos, Jorge Ortiz Fuentes, Joao Guilherme Bastos dos Santos

Part II: (Un)safe Spaces

5. Delete This Message: Media Practices of Anglophone Cameroonian WhatsApp Users in the Face of Counterterrorism / Kim Schumann

6. Engaging and Disengaging with Political Disinformation on WhatsApp: A Study of Young Adults in South Africa / Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales

7. Discourses of Misinformation in the Russian Diaspora: Building Trust across Instant Messaging Channels / Yulia Belinskaya, Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat

8. WhatsApp in the United States: The Political Relevance of Subversive Platforms / Inga Kristina Trauthig

Part III: Infrastructure

9. Contextualizing WhatsApp as Reporting Infrastructure / Ruth Moon

10. Beyond Algorithms: How Politicians Use Human Infrastructure to Spread Disinformation and Hate Speech on WhatsApp in Nigeria / Samuel Olaniran

11. Dis/Misinformation, WhatsApp Groups, and Informal Fact-Checking Practices in Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe / Admire Mare, Allen Munoriyarwa

12. How to Approach Speech Regulation on WhatsApp: Lessons from Regulatory Experiments in India / Amber Sinha

Part IV: Method

13. Methodological Challenges in Researching Disinformation on WhatsApp in Turkey / Erkan Saka

14. Researching Political Communication on WhatsApp: Reflections on Method / Tanja Bosch

15. Collecting WhatsApp Data for Social Science Research: Challenges and a Proposed Solution / Simon Chauchard, Kiran Garimella

16. Automating Data Collection from Public WhatsApp Groups: Challenges and Solutions / Nicholas Micallef, Mustaque Ahamad, Nasir Memon, Sameer Patil

Part V: Reflections on Policy

17. Fact-Checking on WhatsApp in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities / Cayley Clifford

18. Challenges of Fact-Checking WhatsApp Messages in India / Jency Jacob

19. The Policy Problems of Coordinated Harm on WhatsApp in Africa: From Calculation to Observation / Scott Timcke

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

About the Contributors

About the Editors

Index

Notes:

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OCLC:

1500259927