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Rethinking Social Media and Extremism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (194 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781760465254
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking Social Media and ExtremismOnline resources:
Contents:
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?.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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