Rethinking Social Media and Extremism.
Leitch, Shirley.
Rethinking Social Media and Extremism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (194 pages)
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- 1. Rethinking social media and extremism -- 2. The making of a 'made for social media' massacre -- 3. Becoming civic actors -- 4. Hate the player, not the game: Why did the Christchurch shooter's video look like a game? -- 5. Brand lone wolf: The importance of brand narrative in creating extremists -- 6. 'Clumsy and flawed in many respects': Australia's abhorrent violent material legislation -- 7. Coarse and effect: Normalised anger online as an essential precondition to violence -- 8. Performances of power - the site of public debate -- 9. Crisis, what crisis?.
Terrorism, global pandemics, climate change, wars and all the major threats of our age have been targets of online extremism. The same social media occupying the heartland of our social world leaves us vulnerable to cybercrime, electoral fraud and the 'fake news' fuelling the rise of far-right violence and hate speech.
9781760465254
Radicalism in mass media.
Electronic books.
Rethinking Social Media and Extremism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (194 pages)
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- 1. Rethinking social media and extremism -- 2. The making of a 'made for social media' massacre -- 3. Becoming civic actors -- 4. Hate the player, not the game: Why did the Christchurch shooter's video look like a game? -- 5. Brand lone wolf: The importance of brand narrative in creating extremists -- 6. 'Clumsy and flawed in many respects': Australia's abhorrent violent material legislation -- 7. Coarse and effect: Normalised anger online as an essential precondition to violence -- 8. Performances of power - the site of public debate -- 9. Crisis, what crisis?.
Terrorism, global pandemics, climate change, wars and all the major threats of our age have been targets of online extremism. The same social media occupying the heartland of our social world leaves us vulnerable to cybercrime, electoral fraud and the 'fake news' fuelling the rise of far-right violence and hate speech.
9781760465254
Radicalism in mass media.
Electronic books.