{"id":147,"date":"2021-10-26T13:41:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T17:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/populistpublics\/?p=147"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:12:08","slug":"triangular-hate-receives-major-grant-from-government-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/populistpublics\/2021\/triangular-hate-receives-major-grant-from-government-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Triangular Hate receives major grant from Government of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Triangular Hate receives major grant from Government of Canada\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><i>Triangular Hate, <\/i>a Populist Publics project tracking the distortion of historical memory across social media networks by populist and far-right groups and persons on both sides of the Atlantic, has received support from the Government of Canada in the form of a major grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage\u2019s Digital Citizen Contribution Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project analyzes the role of populist memory entrepreneurs in deliberately miscasting \u201cwestern civilization and history\u201d as a tactic to legitimize a platform of harmful speech and disinformation. Memory activism of this sort aids groups and individuals in building up in-group capability (which is frequently gendered), acquiring adherents, and challenging the touchstones of democratic pluralism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Triangular Hate analyzes vernacular social media use and transnational connections on the associational level, between far-right extremist and populist groups and actors in Canada, the United States and Germany with a focus on everyday actors. It seeks to understand the traffic and normalization of disinformation about the past as a strategy to disrupt the present, to undermine cultural diversity and pluralism, immigration\/migration, gender equality, gay marriage, and 2SLGBTQIA+ rights as fundamental features of the democratic state. The first of its kind to take on a multi-platform critical historical analysis \u2013 including attention to algorithmic curation \u2013 in analyzing transnational traffic, images, rhetoric, and use of social media platforms for organized hate, this project will provide rich datasets to help politicians and knowledge providers meet the challenge of online populist activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By tracking vernacular social media connectivity for the German-Canadian-US traffic in populist online chatter across different platforms and in transnational perspective, this project charts the shifts and changes in rhetoric and reach and analyzes them in the context of gender, hate speech, social technology and historical memory. Parallel projects currently underway <b>through Populist Publics (backed by SSHRC and SSRC)<\/b>&nbsp;explore exclusively Canadian and US based groups and issues. Triangular Hate traces the transnational connections between users and organizations and the media affordances that make them happen, following sites, profiles, and groups that surfaced in these other studies but which exceed the terms of their research mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will generate an image and data bank that will allow us to ask three main questions aimed at a broader cultural analysis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) how does historical disinformation circulate and gel in moments of crisis, as during the pandemic, and how does this function in the digital mediascape given the specific media affordances of network connectivity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) what are the similarities and differences in terms of the civilizational arguments advanced on both sides of the Atlantic, and the role they play in linking groups and users on the level of organization and rhetoric?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) how do heritage-driven arguments against egalitarianism and pluralism move across platforms and into everyday discourse? Central to this undertaking is the role of platform affordances in delimiting outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to more traditional scholarly output, Triangular Hate will test hypotheses about how to think about social media and historical memory in creating affective solidarities that endanger democratic ways of thinking and institutions. In a more applied sense, the data archive will serve as the backbone of several learning modules for NGOs, schools, social workers and government to equip citizens with digital competencies to promote resistance and resilience to disinformation and social media manipulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research will be made public and accessible in a variety of fora throughout the course of the grant from blogs to Op\/Eds, workshops with stakeholders and students, and in the longer term, in learning modules and publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"fr-CA\">Triangular Hate d\u00e9clar\u00e9 laur\u00e9at d\u2019une bourse du gouvernement du Canada&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"fr-CA\">&nbsp;<\/span><span lang=\"fr-CA\">\u00ab&nbsp;<i>Triangular Hate<\/i>,&nbsp;\u00bb un projet du r\u00e9seau \u00ab&nbsp;<i>Populist Publics<\/i> \u00bb scrutant et suivant la d\u00e9formation du souvenir historique sur ces m\u00eames m\u00e9dias par des groupes d\u2019extr\u00eame-droite des deux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de l\u2019Atlantique, recevra dor\u00e9navant un soutien du gouvernement du Canada, ayant \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9clar\u00e9 laur\u00e9at d\u2019une bourse importante du Programme de contributions en mati\u00e8re de citoyennet\u00e9 num\u00e9rique du D\u00e9partement du patrimoine canadien.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"fr-CA\">Le projet observe les communications de groupes populistes des pays mentionn\u00e9s et sur divers r\u00e9seaux, analysant les changements dans leur langage et dans leur audience afin d\u2019en comprendre l\u2019effet sur le genre, le discours haineux, la technologie sociale et le souvenir historique. La recherche ayant lieu dans le contexte du projet \u00ab&nbsp;<i>Triangular Hate<\/i>&nbsp;\u00bb s\u2019aligne avec et complimente le projet \u00ab&nbsp;<i>Populist Publics<\/i>&nbsp;\u00bb (appuy\u00e9 par la CRSH et la SSRC), qui examine de fa\u00e7on exclusive les groupes et les questions du Canada et des \u00c9tats-Unis.<\/span>&nbsp;\u00ab&nbsp;<i>Triangular Hate&nbsp;<\/i>\u00bb identifie les connections transnationales entre groupes et individus, ainsi que les liens m\u00e9diatiques permettant ces relations \u2013 prenant comme point de d\u00e9part les r\u00e9seaux identifi\u00e9s lors de projets-s\u0153urs qui ne purent les analyser eux-m\u00eames sans briguer leur mandat de recherche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"fr-CA\"> Ce projet analysera le r\u00f4le des \u00ab&nbsp;entrepreneurs&nbsp;\u00bb du souvenir populiste lorsqu\u2019ils manipulent de mauvaise foi l\u2019id\u00e9e de \u00ab&nbsp;civilisation et histoire occidentales&nbsp;\u00bb afin de donner davantage de cr\u00e9ance \u00e0 un ensemble de discours haineux et de d\u00e9sinformation. De cela, ils esp\u00e8rent renforcer la position du \u00ab&nbsp;cercle ferm\u00e9&nbsp;\u00bb \/ le groupe d\u00e9mographique favoris\u00e9, qui discrimine souvent sur des lignes du genre \u00e9galement; attirer de nouveaux disciples; et aiguiser leurs attaques sur le pluralisme d\u00e9mocratique. De plus, le projet analysera l\u2019utilisation populaire des m\u00e9dias sociaux faite par, et les connections transatlantiques cr\u00e9\u00e9es par, les groupes et partis populistes et d\u2019extr\u00eame-droite situ\u00e9s au Canada, aux \u00c9tats-Unis et en Allemagne. Le but est d\u2019ainsi mieux comprendre le trajet emprunt\u00e9, incluant le processus de normalisation par lequel il passe, par cette d\u00e9sinformation historique dans sa qu\u00eate de \u00ab&nbsp;revirer&nbsp;\u00bb l\u2019actualit\u00e9 politique, avec un accent mis sur les politiques multiculturelles, d\u2019immigration, de l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 des genres, du mariage gai et des droits LGBTTIQQ2SAA+. Celui-ci est le premier tel projet performant une analyse historique critique et couvrant plusieurs plateformes (et donnant une attention particuli\u00e8re aux effets des algorithmes propri\u00e9taires) afin de mieux comprendre la place des \u00e9changes transatlantiques, des images, du discours, et des r\u00e9seaux sociaux dans la haine m\u00e9thodique et organis\u00e9e. En ce faisant, il offrira aux politiciens et aux professionnels cherchant \u00e0 contrer les d\u00e9fis pos\u00e9s par l\u2019activit\u00e9 num\u00e9rique populiste de riches banques de donn\u00e9es \u00e0 analyser.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"fr-CA\">\u00ab&nbsp;<i>Triangular Hate<\/i>&nbsp;\u00bb g\u00e9n\u00e9rera une banque de donn\u00e9es et d\u2019images permettant d\u2019\u00e9laborer une r\u00e9ponse tentative \u00e0 trois grandes questions cherchant \u00e0 soutenir une plus large analyse culturelle&nbsp;:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"fr-CA\">1) comment la d\u00e9formation du souvenir historique circule-t-elle et se cristallise-t-elle en moments de crise, telle la pand\u00e9mie actuelle, et comment y contribuent les relations transatlantiques, les liens entre r\u00e9seaux sociaux et les autres outils permis par la vie num\u00e9rique actuelle?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"fr-CA\">2) comment se comparent les arguments \u00ab&nbsp;civilisationnels&nbsp;\u00bb utilis\u00e9s de chaque bord de l\u2019Atlantique, et comment ces arguments sont-ils mani\u00e9s par les groupes et leurs membres?<\/span><span lang=\"fr-CA\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"fr-CA\">3) comment les arguments cherchant \u00e0 miner le pluralisme d\u00e9mocratique au nom d\u2019un h\u00e9ritage invent\u00e9 font-ils le saut des r\u00e9seaux sociaux \u00e0 la vie et au discours quotidiens?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"fr-CA\">Une compr\u00e9hension approfondie du r\u00f4le jou\u00e9 par les r\u00e8gles appliqu\u00e9es par les m\u00e9dias sociaux est cl\u00e9 afin de bien r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 ces questions. En plus des papiers et produits d\u00e9coulant typiquement d\u2019un tel projet de recherche, \u00ab&nbsp;<i>Triangular Hate<\/i>&nbsp;\u00bb mettra \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9preuve des th\u00e9ories portant sur le nexus entre m\u00e9dias sociaux et souvenir historique, un nexus potentiellement nocif et nuisible aux philosophies et institutions d\u00e9mocratiques. Un impact plus tangible sera la cr\u00e9ation, \u00e0 partir de la banque de donn\u00e9es, de plusieurs modules p\u00e9dagogiques qui seront rendus disponibles aux organisations non-gouvernementales (ONGs), aux \u00e9coles, aux travailleurs sociaux et au gouvernement afin de les aider \u00e0 \u00e9quiper les citoyens des outils et des comp\u00e9tences num\u00e9riques requises afin de se prot\u00e9ger de la d\u00e9sinformation et de la manipulation des m\u00e9dias sociaux.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span lang=\"fr-CA\">Il est cl\u00e9 de noter que les chercheurs \u00e9tudiants b\u00e9n\u00e9ficieront en \u00e9tant form\u00e9s en les techniques et les aptitudes dernier-cri de la visualisation et l\u2019utilisation des logiciels d\u2019analyse de donn\u00e9es. En certains cas, ils g\u00e9n\u00e9reront des programmes ind\u00e9pendants afin de mieux cataloguer et interpr\u00e9ter les donn\u00e9es. Au cours de leur participation, ils contribueront de l\u2019analyse li\u00e9e intimement au moment pr\u00e9sent, contribuant de fa\u00e7on importante \u00e0 la formation du d\u00e9bat civil portant sur les pratiques num\u00e9riques et la place de l\u2019ing\u00e9rence populiste dans les traditions et institutions d\u00e9mocratiques. \u00c0 plus longue \u00e9chelle, ce projet de recherche m\u00e8nera \u00e0 une s\u00e9rie de modules p\u00e9dagogiques que gouvernements, ONGs, travailleurs sociaux et enseignants pourront utiliser pour aider leurs audiences \u00e0 mieux rep\u00e9rer et contrer la d\u00e9sinformation. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triangular Hate, a Populist Publics project tracking the distortion of historical memory across social media networks by populist and far-right groups and persons on both sides of the Atlantic, has received support from the Government of Canada in the form of a major grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage\u2019s Digital Citizen Contribution Program. 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