Dear SSJ-Forum list member,
the Department of East Asian Studies - Japanese Studies at University of Vienna would like to draw your attention to the upcoming hybrid u:japan lecture:

Ayaka Löschke:
"User Engagement Against Online Hate Speech: The #Netto-uyo BAN Matsuri since 2018"

Date and time: Thursday, June 22, 2023, 18:30~20:00 (CEST, UTC+2h)
The Zoom Meeting will be open from 18:15 (CEST).
Max. 50 participants (on site) + max. 300 participants (online)

This lecture by Ayaka Löschke (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) focuses on Japanese internet users who have taken on the challenging task of systematically reporting online hate speech and other forms of hateful content to social media companies. It addresses two questions: (1) What types of users participate in such user engagement? (2) What motivates and sustains Twitter users in their engagement?
To address these questions, the #Internet Rightists Ban Festival (Netto-uyo Ban Matsuri is selected as the Japanese case study. Launched in May 2018, this collective action has continued to the present day, resulting in the removal of over 990,800 videos and 4,000 channels from YouTube, as well as the deletion of more than 270 million tweets and 11,000 accounts from Twitter. The lecture will begin by providing background information on the Japanese case study, including the Japanese internet culture, which is marked by cynicism and gamification, and the analytical framework offered by the German case study since 2016 (#ichbinhier). In the main part, Ayaka Löschke will present the results of a qualitative content analysis of 3,821 tweets posted in 2018 and 2020, examining three determinants of user engagement against hateful content proposed by scholars specializing in the German case study.

This will be a hybrid event, both live at the Campus of the University of Vienna and online via Zoom. Live participation is available for 50 people.
For more information on the speaker, abstract of the lecture and future events of u:japan lectures, please follow the link below:
https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/

Please read the "Instructions and Netiquette" before joining the lecture at the bottom of the homepage.

Place:
LIVE @ Campus of the University of Vienna
Department of East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies
Seminarraum JAP 1, 2K-EG-21, Ground floor to the left
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.4 (Campus), 1090 Vienna, Austria
https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=23548#c646040

Join the lecture via Zoom (no registration necessary):
Link:
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63079713655?pwd=VkdLbEtMcDZTWmFXbVIwNm9vY284UT09
Meeting-ID: 630 7971 3655 | PW: 951484

We look forward to your participation!
With kind regards,
Bernhard Leitner, Florian Purkarthofer and Ralf Windhab

PS: If you missed a lecture or want to review, head to our recorded
lectures section:
https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/records/

u:japan lectures
Department of East Asian Studies / Japanese Studies
University of Vienna
E-mail: ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at