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1 online resource (xv, 178 pages). |
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Australia and the world
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| 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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Table of contents |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. In the face of widespread calls for action, governments struggle to reform legal and regulatory frameworks designed for an analogue age. And what of our rights as citizens? As politicians and lawyers run to catch up to the future as it disappears over the horizon, who guarantees our right to free speech, to free and fair elections, to play video games, to surf the Net, to believe 'fake news'? Rethinking Social Media and Extremism offers a broad range of perspectives on violent extremism online and how to stop it. As one major crisis follows another and a global pandemic accelerates our turn to digital technologies, attending to the issues raised in this book becomes ever more urgent. -- Publisher. |
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Open Access EbpS |
| Subject |
Online social networks -- Political aspects.
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Radicalism in mass media.
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COMPUTERS / Web / Social Networking.
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| Added Author |
Leitch, Shirley, 1960- editor.
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Australian National University Press, publisher.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rethinking social media and extremism. Canberra, ACT, Australia : Australian National University Press, 2022 9781760465247 |
| ISBN |
1760465259 (electronic book) |
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9781760465254 (electronic book) |
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