WhatsApp in the world : disinformation, encryption and extreme speech / edited by Sahana Udupa and Herman Wasserman.
| Other author | Udupa, Sahana, 1977- editor. |
| Other author | Wasserman, Herman, 1969- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : New York University Press, [2025] |
| Description | vii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Lived encryptions: WhatsApp, disinformation, and extreme speech / Sahana Udupa and Herman Wasserman -- Extreme speech, community resonance and moralities: Ethnographic notes on the use of WhatsApp in Brazilian Favelas / Carolina Parreiras -- Exclusionary politics and its contradictions: Peddling anti-immigrant sentiments through WhatsApp in South Africa / Nkululeko Sibiya and Iginio Gagliardone -- Deep extreme speech: Intimate networks for inflamed rhetoric on WhatsApp / Sahana Udupa -- Misinformation behind the scenes: Political misinformation in WhatsApp public groups ahead of the 2022 constitutional referendum in Chile / Marcelo Santos, Jorge Ortiz Fuentes, and̃̃̃̃ João Guilherme Bastos dos Santos -- Delete this message: Media practices of Anglophone Cameroonian WhatsApp users in the face of counterterrorism / Kim Schumann -- Engaging and Disengaging with Political Disinformation on WhatsApp: A Study of Young Adults in South Africa / Herman Wasserman and Dani Madrid-Morales -- Discourses of Misinformation in the Russian Diaspora: Building Trust Across Instant Messaging Channels / Yulia Belinskaya and Joan Ramon Rodriguez-Amat -- WhatsApp in the US: The Political Relevance of Subversive Platforms / Inga Trauthig -- Contextualizing WhatsApp as Reporting Infrastructure / Ruth Moon -- Beyond Algorithms: How Politicians Use Human Infrastructure to Spread Disinformation and Hate Speech on WhatsApp in Nigeria / Samuel Olaniran -- Dis/Misinformation, WhatsApp Groups, and Informal Fact-Checking Practices in Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe / Admire Mare and Allen Munoriyarwa -- How to Approach Speech Regulation on WhatsApp: Lessons From Regulatory Experiments in India / Amber Sinha -- Methodological Challenges in Researching Disinformation on WhatsApp in Turkey / Erkan Saka -- Researching Political Communication on WhatsApp: Reflections on Method / Tanja Bosch -- Collecting WhatsApp Data for Social Science Research: Challenges and a Proposed Solution / Simon Chauchard and Kiran Garimella -- Automating Data Collection from Public WhatsApp Groups: Challenges and Solutions / Nicholas Micallef, Mustaque Ahamad, Nasir Memon, and Sameer Patil -- Fact-Checking on WhatsApp in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities / Cayley Clifford -- Challenges of Fact-Checking WhatsApp Messages in India / Jency Jacob -- The Policy Problems of Coordinated Harm on WhatsApp in Africa: From Calculation to Observation / Scott Timcke. |
| Abstract | ""WhatsApp in the World" presents a groundbreaking global analysis of the vastly popular instant messaging service, delving into the complex interplay between encryption and extreme speech"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: WhatsApp in the world New York : New York University Press, [2025] 9781479833283 |
| LCCN | 2024040426 |
| ISBN | 9781479833276 |
| ISBN | 9781479833269 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1479833266 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1479833274 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book other |
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