Imagery of Hate Online

Marcus Scheiber is a linguist with research interest in social semiotics, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis and multimodality research. He started his academic career at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bern, and as a visiting researcher and lecturer at the University of Mumbai. He received his MA from the University of Heidelberg in 2018 with a thesis about internet memes. Since 2020, he has been pursuing a joint PhD project at the University of Vechta and University of Vienna entitled “The reality construction potential of multimodal communicative units in antisemitic communication”, examining internet memes as communication formats in antisemitic communication strategies. In addition to his academic pursuits he was employed as a data analyst at Amazon, where he was responsible for the further development and improvement of Alexa through qualitative annotation and transcription of speech data.

Prof. Uffa Jensen is a historian of modern history and serves as the deputy director at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at the Technische Universität in Berlin. In 2017, he received a prestigious Heisenberg professorship of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). His research interests include the modern history of antisemitism, of German Jewry, of psychoanalysis, of the history of emotions as well as visual history. He has previously held positions at the University of Sussex, the Universität Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. He has published a number of books and articles; among his monographs are “Ein antisemitischer Doppelmord. Die vergessene Geschichte des Rechtsterrorismus in der Bundesrepublik” (Berlin 2022), “Wie die Couch nach Kalkutta kam: Eine Globalgeschichte der frühen Psychoanalyse” (Berlin 2019), “Zornpolitik” (Berlin 2017), “Recht und Politik, Perspektiven deutsch-jüdischer Geschichte” (Paderborn 2014), “Gebildete Doppelgänger. Bürgerliche Juden und Protestanten im 19. Jahrhundert” (Göttingen 2005).