Fanaticism, Racism, and Rage Online

Klein, Adam

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“…There is growing agreement that the Internet has played such a powerful role in building the edifices of contemporary racism due to three interacting factors (Klein 2017). …”

Section: Alt_right and Social Media: The Dark Side Of The Webmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As identity politics has deepened along the fault lines of race, gender and sexuality, so the Internet has become not merely a battleground but indeed a real weapon in the conflicts over resources, power and life choices (Klein, 2017). That is, the Internet has been used to harass targets, including the practice of 'doxing' (the release of private documents), in which the real world information of targets has been revealed so that they can be further pursued, for instance, through harassment of their children both online and off.…”

Section: Alt_right and Social Media: The Dark Side Of The Webmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Alt_Right White Lite: Trolling, Hate Speech and Cyber Racism on Social Media

Jakubowicz

2017

CCS Journal

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The rapid growth of race hate speech on the Internet seems to have overwhelmed the capacity of states, corporations or civil society to limit its spread and impact. Yet by understanding how the political economy of the Internet facilitates racism it is possible to chart strategies that might push back on its negative social effects. Only by involving the state, economy and civil society at both the global level, and locally, can such a process begin to develop an effective ‘civilising’ dynamic. However neo-liberalism and democratic license may find such an exercise ultimately overwhelmingly challenging, especially if the fundamental logical drivers that underpin the business model of the Internet cannot be transformed. This article charts the most recent rise and confusion of the Internet under the impact of the Alt-Right and other racist groups, focusing on an Australian example that demonstrates the way in which a group could manipulate the contradictions of the Internet with some success. Using an analytical model developed to understand the political economy and sociology of mass media power in the later stages of modernity, before the Internet, the author offers a series of proposals on how to address racism on the Internet.

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“…There is growing agreement that the Internet has played such a powerful role in building the edifices of contemporary racism due to three interacting factors (Klein 2017). …”

Section: Alt_right and Social Media: The Dark Side Of The Webmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Alt_right and Social Media: The Dark Side Of The Webmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alt_Right White Lite: Trolling, Hate Speech and Cyber Racism on Social Media

Jakubowicz

2017

CCS Journal

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“…The relatively low rates reported in regard to informational skills suggest that there is a certain awareness of the challenges posed by searching for information. As pointed by Klein (2017), factual information sites are places where the connections to 'white propaganda' may be disseminated. At such sites, 'critical surfing' based on technological proficiency may replace the critical evaluation of sources and content.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The concept of techno-ethos underlines the credibility and authority constructed online through programming proficiency. For Klein (2017), this labour can be extremely effective with the Net Generation and its 'critical surfing', e.g., "the practice of giving credence to websites simply based on their professional designs, visual appeal, sophisticated options in media convergence and the fact they were found through trusted search engines" (Klein, 2017: 28). Thus, procedures for identifying and refusing radical ideas request not only critical informational literacy but also frames of human values.…”

Section: Engaging With the World Mediated By Internetmentioning

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“…The experience of hate speech seems to be mainly an indirect exposure: only 3% said they had received offensive comments against themselves or their community. Most of the interviewees reported feeling sad, angry and full of hatred for the hate content they have seen and the younger age group (11)(12)(13) is also likely to express fear. Acting mainly as bystanders of these hate messages in the past year, 42% tried to help the victim while 58% did nothing about it.…”

Section: Increasing Exposure To Inappropriate User-generated Content mentioning

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Challenging online situations reported by Italian and Portuguese children in 2018

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2019

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Racist Framing through Stigmatized Naming: A Topical and Geo‐locational Analysis of #Chinavirus and #Chinesevirus on Twitter

Chong

Chen

2021

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, racists remarks accompanied by racist hashtags were disseminated via social media. Particularly, Asian Americans in the U.S. have been suffered from racism and xenophobia, resulting in physical violence and mental harassment in many cases. Despite the major function of the social media as an openaccess platform for unedited and free speech for people with a diverse background, the global episodes of the soaring racism and xenophobia occurred in online public arenas reaffirmed that the platforms could be used for a nurturing ground of racism and xenophobia. This study examined the top influencers in the racist hashtag Twitter network and top shared neighboring hashtags with #Chinavirus or #Chinesevirus. We extracted topics from the racist hashtag Twitter network applying the state-of-the-art BERTopic modeling technique and conducted a geolocational analysis of the participants of the network globally and by U.S. states. Trump was identified as the most influential actor in the #Chinavirus and #Chinesevirus Twitter network. This study confirmed previous literature that the political elite's public communication strategy to deviate the attention of the public suffered from the new disease and went through hardships under the epidemic crisis.

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Fanaticism, Racism, and Rage Online

Cited by 31 publications

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Alt_Right White Lite: Trolling, Hate Speech and Cyber Racism on Social Media

Alt_Right White Lite: Trolling, Hate Speech and Cyber Racism on Social Media

Challenging online situations reported by Italian and Portuguese children in 2018

Racist Framing through Stigmatized Naming: A Topical and Geo‐locational Analysis of #Chinavirus and #Chinesevirus on Twitter

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