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Livestream today - Survey on online hate faced by female EU parliamentarians

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH

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Presentation and discussion with EU Commissioner Helena Dalli – livestreamed today

Survey on online hate faced by female EU parliamentarians

Women who are politically active in social media are frequently targeted by online hate speech. The extent and causes of this form of misogyny as well as possible countermeasures will be addressed in a discussion event at the European Parliament at 5 p.m. today. The discussions will also be livestreamed. MEPs and Helena Dalli, the EU Commissioner for Equality, will debate the issues with researchers and authors.

Janina Steinert, a professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), will present a survey on online hate conducted among MEPs. It shows that both female and male MEPs face hate speech. However, the female respondents are more likely to experience certain forms of hate, including sexualized verbal violence, to feel intimidated by it and to reduce their social media activities.

Program:

“Tackling Online Misogyny Against Politically Active Women”

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

European Parliament, room Paul Henri Spaak (PHS 7C050)

Registration for in-person or livestream attendance: https://europeanparliament.webex.com/europeanparliament/onstage/g.php?MTID=e9beb898fc496bbba232ecf956e12daf0

5 p.m.: Helena Dalli, European Commissioner for Equality

5.10: Diane Abbott, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom (video message)

5.15: Janina Steinert, professor of global health, TUM: “Online Violence Against Female Politicians: Empirical Insights”

5.25: Theresa Bielowski & Pierette Herzberger Fofana, MEP

5.30: Ingrid Brodnig, author: “Hate Speech as a Political Tool”

5.40: Maria Noichl & Evin Incir, MEP

5.45: Sawsan Chebli, Former State Secretary in Berlin: “LOUD - Why Hate Speech is Real Violence”

5.55: Delara Burkhardt & Evelyn Regner, MEP

6 p.m.: Discussion

The event will be hosted by the TUM professorships for Global Health (Prof. Janina Steinert) and for Computational Social Science and Big Data (Prof. Jürgen Pfeffer) and by the S&D and Green/EFA groups in the European Parliament.

It is part of the research project "Understanding, Detecting, and Mitigating Online Misogyny Against Politically Active Women". A team from TUM, Munich School of Politics and Public Policy and LMU Munich is investigating the phenomena surrounding this kind of misogyny. This includes the analysis of cultural differences based on case studies in Germany, India and Brazil. They also want to develop automated methods for the early identification of misogynistic dynamics.

https://www.gov.sot.tum.de/gov/projects/misogyny-20/project/

The project is funded by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), an institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW).

Scientific contact:

Prof. Dr. Janina SteinertTechnical University of Munich (TUM)

Professorship of Global Health

Phone: + 49 89 907793 321

janina.steinert@tum.de

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pfeffer

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Professorship of Computational Social Science und Big Data

Phone: +49 89 907793 200

juergen.pfeffer@hfp.tum.de

Contact at TUM Corporate Communications Center:Klaus Becker

Media relations

Phone: +49 89 289 22798

klaus.becker@tum.de

https://www.tum.de

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of Europe’s leading research universities, with more than 600 professors, 50,000 students, and 11,000 academic and non-academic staff. Its focus areas are the engineering sciences, natural sciences, life sciences and medicine, combined with economic and social sciences. TUM acts as an entrepreneurial university that promotes talents and creates value for society. In that it profits from having strong partners in science and industry. It is represented worldwide with the TUM Asia campus in Singapore as well as offices in Beijing, Brussels, Mumbai, San Francisco, and São Paulo. Nobel Prize winners and inventors such as Rudolf Diesel, Carl von Linde, and Rudolf Mößbauer have done research at TUM. In 2006, 2012, and 2019 it won recognition as a German "Excellence University." In international rankings, TUM regularly places among the best universities in Germany.

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