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12 January 2015updated 13 Jan 2015 5:15pm

Sound and Fury: A civil correspondence about online rage

Keith Kahn-Harris, editor of the Jewish Quarterly, and Helen Lewis, deputy editor of the New Statesman, discuss the anger that permeates the online world and how, as editors, they respond to it.

By Helen Lewis

Towards the end of last year, Keith Kahn-Harris emailed me, asking whether I would be interested in exchanging perspectives on our experiences of online rage, and how to generate more light than heat when covering contentious topics. Keith’s background is as the editor of the magazine Jewish Quarterly, while most of my experiences of Twitterstorms and other expressions of anger have been through the New Statesman‘s coverage of feminism and gender. This piece is also posted at JQ.

 

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