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
PublicationNew York : New York University Press, [2025]
Descriptionvii, 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: WhatsApp in the world New York : New York University Press, [2025] 9781479833283
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ISBN9781479833276
ISBN9781479833269 hardcover
ISBN1479833266 hardcover
ISBN1479833274 paperback
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