Cyber Racism and Community Resilience: Strategies for Combating Online Race Hate

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This book highlights cyber racism as an ever growing contemporary phenomenon. Its scope and impact reveals how the internet has escaped national governments, while its expansion is fuelling the spread of non-state actors. In response, the authors address the central question of this topic: What is to be done? Cyber Racism and Community Resilience demonstrates how the social sciences can be marshalled to delineate, comprehend and address the issues raised by a global epidemic of hateful acts against race. Authored by an inter-disciplinary team of researchers based in Australia, this book presents original data that reflects upon the lived, complex and often painful reality of race relations on the internet. It engages with the various ways, from the regulatory to the role of social activist, which can be deployed to minimise the harm often felt. This book will be of particular interest to students and academics in the fields of cybercrime, media sociology and cyber racism. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Context: “Cyberspace,” “Race” and Community Resilience (Andrew Jakubowicz, Kevin Dunn, Gail Mason, Yin Paradies, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Nasya Bahfen et al.)....Pages 1-43 Researching Cyber Racism: Methodologies and Methods Across Disciplines (Andrew Jakubowicz, Kevin Dunn, Gail Mason, Yin Paradies, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Nasya Bahfen et al.)....Pages 45-64 How Cyber Users Experience and Respond to Racism: Evidence from an Online Survey (Andrew Jakubowicz, Kevin Dunn, Gail Mason, Yin Paradies, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Nasya Bahfen et al.)....Pages 65-94 Racism and the Affordances of the Internet (Andrew Jakubowicz, Kevin Dunn, Gail Mason, Yin Paradies, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Nasya Bahfen et al.)....Pages 95-145 Targets (Andrew Jakubowicz, Kevin Dunn, Gail Mason, Yin Paradies, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Nasya Bahfen et al.)....Pages 147-191 Racist Narratives Online (Andrew Jakubowicz, Kevin Dunn, Gail Mason, Yin Paradies, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Nasya Bahfen et al.)....Pages 193-215 Building Online Communities of Resistance and Solidarity (Andrew Jakubowicz, Kevin Dunn, Gail Mason, Yin Paradies, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Nasya Bahfen et al.)....Pages 217-255 Promoting Resilience Through Regulation (Andrew Jakubowicz, Kevin Dunn, Gail Mason, Yin Paradies, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Nasya Bahfen et al.)....Pages 257-298 Conclusion: Future Directions in Building Community Resilience (Andrew Jakubowicz, Kevin Dunn, Gail Mason, Yin Paradies, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Nasya Bahfen et al.)....Pages 299-358 Back Matter ....Pages 359-376