Digital retrospective autoethnography: decolonizing hate speech. Educational models for the conquest of onlife identity


Abstract:

The osmotic relationship between the online and offline dimensions transforms hostile words traveling on social networks into physical and psychological violence. Given this, the essay will discuss, through the lens of the decolonial option, the sociological and pedagogical significance of cultural and digital practices used by users in the production of hate speech. On one hand, the phenomenon will be analyzed with respect to the coloniality of language, while on the other, the role of narrative as a practice of semiotic liberation will be considered. Starting from these initial cognitive questions and using the methodological tool of retrospective autoethnography, the contribution proposes the practice of autobiographical writing to encourage high school students to construct counter-narratives that, starting from a utopian dimension, guide them in the challenging conquest of their onlife identity.