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How does hate cross borders in digital Asia?
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Social media has become an integral part of everyday communication in the digital age. At the same time, however, it has also become a platform through which conflict, antagonism, and hate can spread and intensify. Digital technologies afford extensive networked connectivity, multimodal expression, and the rapid circulation and modification of content, making it easier to simplify, categorise, exclude, and target particular identities and groups through hateful discourse. As transnational networks increasingly transcend national borders and emerging technologies such as AI rapidly erode linguistic barriers, the scope of networked hate is becoming increasingly difficult to contain.
Recent hostile communication among social media users in South Korea and Southeast offers one example of this phenomenon. What began as cultural conflict developed into forms of reciprocal hostility, with users mirroring one another through similar logics and discourses. Images and texts that can be easily modified, reproduced, and circulated in digital environments further intensified these exchanges. Just as conflict and hostility have long circulated through the complex historical, cultural, and geopolitical relationships among Korea, China, and Japan, networked hate now accompanies the expanding transnational exchanges between Northeast and Southeast Asia. The recent hostility among publics in Korea and Southeast Asia is not simply an isolated incident, but part of a broader transformation in how conflict is produced and circulated through digital networks across Asia.
About TransCurrentAsia (TCA)
TransCurrentAsia (TCA) is a research forum established in 2024 by research teams from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Waseda University, and Monash University Malaysia. The forum seeks to identify and explore the flows of interaction, exchange, and conflict that connect Northeast and Southeast Asia, and to develop these issues as agendas for sustained scholarly and public discussion.
