Soma Basu

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An Investigative journo turned researcher, PhDing at Tampere University. Researching social media for Science Po, Princeton and Columbia University's joint project – Muslims in India. Former journalist fellow of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University, and former India editor of AFP Factcheck.
Interests: #Misinformation #Disinformation #HateSpeech #Violence #OSINT #Gamification
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Soma BasuNov 7, 2022
Eugen RochkoDec 29, 2019

How to migrate from one Mastodon server to another without losing followers:

1. Sign up on new server
2. On NEW server: Go to Account -> Moving FROM another account
3. Enter old account's handle
4. On OLD server: Go to Account -> Moving TO another account
5. Enter new account's handle and submit

#YoMigroaMastodon

Soma BasuNov 6, 2022
Bartosz ŚlosarskiNov 6, 2022

On November 8 there will be a discussion on the book "Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics”, for which I had the pleasure of contributing a chapter on the strategic dilemmas of material objects in street protests. These are findings from my previous project on material cultures of social movements.

Event info: https://tinyurl.com/345d8fva
Book: https://www.press.umich.edu//11722857

#Book #BookEvent #Sociology #PoliticalSociology #Protest #SocialMovements

House Series – Symbolic Objects in Contentious politics: Why Objects Matter in Protest, Revolution and Resistance

Soma BasuNov 6, 2022
সঙ্কর্ষণ | sankarshanOct 28, 2022
RT @divyarrs
Excited to be offering a short course on qualitative research methods! This course is especially designed for early career researchers and practitioners interested in studying the urban. You can enroll here:
https://iihs.co.in/capacity-building/qualitative-research-methods-in-the-urban/
Indian Institute for Human Settlements | Qualitative Research Methods in the Urban

Soma BasuNov 5, 2022
Claes de Vreese ☑️Oct 29, 2022

This is the platform to share this piece, right?

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation

Welcome to hell, Elon

Elon Musk now owns Twitter — and a huge number of impossible political problems around speech, content moderation, and trying to make money.

The Verge
Soma BasuNov 5, 2022
Claes de Vreese ☑️Oct 31, 2022
Are there enough folks here to get traction on a ‘good luck’ with final touches for #ica23 ??
🔥🚀
Soma BasuNov 5, 2022
ChandersNov 3, 2022
A request to folks at #AoIR2022 - if you do post on here from the conference could you try using #commodon as an attempt to gather “our” tribe using a common hashtag? No pressure ofc but we can give it a shot.
Soma BasuNov 5, 2022
Bartosz ŚlosarskiNov 5, 2022
Hello Mastodon! I am looking for folks or/and circles in the areas of #STS #DigitalActivism #SocialMovements #ContentiousPolitics #CriticalDataStudies #Datafication #DataPolitics
Soma BasuFeb 3, 2020
JB 🇮🇳Feb 3, 2020

http://bit.ly/396cU7o @sbasu writes how toxic social media is pushing the Indian right-wing to spawn terrorists within its ranks. Here’s a case study of the Jamia Millia shooter, Rambhakt Gopal, whose brain has been washed and heart filled with hate.

#mustread #RWTerror

Jamia Millia Shootout: Making of a Hindutva Terrorist 

A look at the toxic social media circle inhabited by the young man who shot at a crowd gathered to mark the 72nd anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination.

Show threadSoma BasuFeb 3, 2020

I had joined over 140 WhatsApp groups (both private & public) in Nov 2018 to understand the extent of Islamophobic hate speech on WhatsApp. Several of these groups were run by BJP's IT cell (messages from 'prashashanik committee').

More 60,000 messages collected over a period of 5 months show every fourth message in these WhatsApp groups are Islamophobic hate speech. This excludes political disinformation & non-religious propaganda. (https://bit.ly/37VD8to)

Manufacturing Islamophobia on WhatsApp in India

What can a study of pro-BJP WhatsApp groups tell us about the party’s culpability in rising Islamophobia?

Show threadSoma BasuFeb 3, 2020

But they tag along and used when a freak attack is planned. They do not have formal association so cannot be traced back to the party. It only needs a little bit of digging to see how Gangadhar is Shaktiman.

The article on Rambhakt is not just about what he posted but the network he was embedded in. Back to Kapil Gujjar, 1) These fanatics have access to guns, 2) They stay closer to police and the crowd, 3) They all want Hindu Rashtra.