Social Processes of Online Hate - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032750421 ISBN 13: 9781032750422

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This book explores the social forces among and between online aggressors that affect the expression and perpetration of online hate. Its chapters illustrate how patterns of interactive social behavior reinforce, magnify, or modify this expression. It also considers the characteristics of social media that facilitate social interactions that promote hate and facilitate relationships among haters. Bringing together a range of international experts and covering an array of themes, including woman abuse, antisemitism, pornography, radicalization, and extreme political youth movements, this book examines the specific social factors and processes that facilitate these forms of hate and proposes new approaches for explaining them.

Cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and authoritative, this book will be of interest to sociologists, criminologists, and scholars of media, communication, and computational social science alike, as well as those engaged with hate crime, hate speech, social media, and online social networks.

About this title

About the Author

Joseph B. Walther is the Bertelsen Presidential Chair of Technology and Society, and Distinguished Professor of Communication at the University of California Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Ronald E. Rice is the Arthur N. Rupe Chair in Social Effects of Mass Communication, and Distinguished Professor of Communication at the University of California Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032750421
• ISBN 13: 9781032750422
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Walther Joseph B., Rice Ronald E.