Cyber Racism and Community Resilience

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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 ra

Reports the results of an online survey completed by thousands of Australian internet users that explores the issue of racism online

Examines what attracts racists to the internet and the different ways racism is ‘performed’ online

Discusses how communities of resistance to (online) racism can be built

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Andrew Jakubowicz

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