(Un)Silencing Academia in Times of Epistemic Conflicts

1.Un-silencing Academia. A multidimensional perspective on online attacks on academics. Part 1. Theoretical background. 2.Foreword – (Un)silencing Academia Part One. 3.The Social Presence of Academics on Social Media Platforms: A Specific Form of Public Engagement. 4.Transformations of Higher Education: Precarisation, Entrepreneurization, Subjectivation, and Exploitation of Anxiety in Neoliberal Academia. 5.Beyond Visibility: Online Academic Harassment and the Politics of Socio-Technical Harm. Part 2. Case studies. 6.Foreword – (Un)silencing Academia Part Two. 7.The politics of science: Academics facing online violence. 8.Ethics of an unlocked closet: difficult fields and the LGBTIQ+ researchers’ dilemma on transparency. 9.Performing citizenship through digital media: exploring online harassment of academics with a gender perspective. 10.Threats to academic freedom online and offline in France – culture wars, identity politics and the Islamo-gauchisme controversy. Part 3. Institutions, Conclusions, Suggestions. 11.Foreword – (Un)silencing Academia Part Three. 12.Ethical challenges in online research on the far-right continuum. 13.The Rise of Online Harm: Individual, Community and Institutional Strategies to Protect Researchers. 14.Un-silencing as Resistance: Conceptualizing Online Attacks on Academics as Online Violence.