The hate as a vector of subjectivation

theoretical considerations about hate speech on digital social networks

Abstract

New communication technologies such as digital social media offer subjects multiple possibilities to see themselves in other Internet users, in their words, audios, videos, shared memes. As an essay, we will go through some authors who will allow us to develop reflections in order to explore the psychological dimension of hate speech, produced and transmitted in digital social networks. In this manuscript we will defend the proposition that the subject is a central element that converts and organizes the chaos of meanings that populate reality. As long as we are not able to advance in more efficient communication strategies, structuring counter-discourses that do not take all our interlocutors as subjectively inferior, in a degraded moral status in relation to our supposed superiority, we will fail in any action of moving towards scenarios in which preserve not only freedom of expression, but the inherent dignity of the other.