Rethinking social media and extremism /

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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-r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Leitch, Shirley, 1960- (Editor), Pickering, Paul (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2022.
Series:Australia and the World
Subjects:
Online social networks > Political aspects.
Radicalism in mass media.
Réseaux sociaux (Internet) > Aspect politique.
Radicalisme dans les médias.
Internet: general works.
Social networking.
COMPUTERS / Web / Social Networking
Online social networks > Political aspects
Radicalism in mass media
online extremism
social media
digital technology
cybercrime
electoral fraud
fake news
far-right violence
hate speech
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Rethinking social media and extremism / Shirley Leitch and Paul Pickering
  • 2. The making of a ‘made for social media’ massacre / Shirley Leitch
  • 3. Becoming civic actors / Sally Wheeler
  • 4. Hate the player, not the game: why did the Christchurch shooter’s video look like a game? / Robert Fleet
  • 5. Brand lone wolf: the importance of brand narrative in creating extremists / Andrew Hughes
  • 6. ‘Clumsy and flawed in many respects’: Australia’s abhorrent violent material legislation / Mark Nolan and Dominique Dalla-Pozza
  • 7. Coarse and effect: normalised anger online as an essential precondition to violence / Mark Kenny
  • 8. Performances of power – the site of public debate / Katrina Grant
  • 9. Crisis, what crisis? / Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller and Paul Pickering.

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