| Title | Introduction |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Marcus Scheiber(author) |
| Matthias J. Becker(author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0447.01 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0447/chapters/10.11647/obp.0447.01 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Marcus Scheiber; Matthias J. Becker; |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2025-05-02 |
| Page range | pp. 1–12 |
| Language | English (Original) |
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.
Dr. Matthias J. Becker is a linguist and AddressHate Research Scholar at New York University’s Center for the Study of Antisemitism. His research focuses on the linguistic and discursive mechanisms of antisemitism and digital hate speech, particularly implicit forms that become normalized in mainstream political and online discourse. He is the founder and lead of Decoding Antisemitism, one of the largest studies of online antisemitism conducted globally, and now directs its successor project, Decoding Hate, at NYU. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Digital Hate Review and advises governmental institutions and technology companies on issues related to digital hate and online discourse.