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Marcus Scheiber; Matthias J. Becker;Published On
2025-05-02Page Range
pp. 1–12Language
- English
1. Introduction
Contributors
Marcus Scheiber
(author)Marcus Scheiber is a discourse semiotician specialising in critical discourse analysis, internet linguistics, multimodal research and antisemitism 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. He is currently working on a Ph.D. project at the University of Vechta and the University of Vienna, in which he is investigating how the communication format of memes is used for antisemitic communication strategies in the digital sphere.
Matthias J. Becker
(author)Dr Matthias J. Becker is a linguist specialising in pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, and social media studies, with a particular emphasis on researching prejudice and hatred. He studied linguistics, philosophy, and literature at Freie Universität Berlin and has contributed to several research projects focusing on the use of language in political and media campaigns. For over twelve years, his research has focused on the analysis of implicit hate speech—often normalised within mainstream political discourse—and the underlying conditions that enable its emergence. Matthias is the creator and lead of the Decoding Antisemitism research project and Postdoc Researcher at the University of Cambridge and Technische Universität Berlin.