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Online Harassment

  • A human-computer interaction perspective on online harassment
  • Integrating socio-technical theories, algorithms, and interface design to provide a comprehensive look at the problem
  • A study of the impacts of online harassment, how to detect it, and how to prevent it

Part of the book series: Human–Computer Interaction Series (HCIS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Detection

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3
    2. Bridging the Gaps: Multi Task Learning for Domain Transfer of Hate Speech Detection

      • Zeerak Talat, James Thorne, Joachim Bingel
      Pages 29-55
    3. A Network Analysis of the GamerGate Movement

      • Aitalohi Amaize, Andrea Castillo, Benjamin J. Cooper, Nicole Demme, Emily Kowalczyk, Paul Lee et al.
      Pages 57-110
    4. Automation and Harassment Detection

      • Edward Dixon
      Pages 111-124
  3. Characteristics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
    2. Stylistic Variation in Twitter Trolling

      • Isobelle Clarke
      Pages 151-178
    3. GamerGate: A Case Study in Online Harassment

      • Sarah A. Aghazadeh, Alison Burns, Jun Chu, Hazel Feigenblatt, Elizabeth Laribee, Lucy Maynard et al.
      Pages 179-207
  4. Reactions to Harassment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
    2. Avoiding Online Harassment: The Socially Disenfranchised

      • Xinru Page, Bart P. Knijnenburg, Pamela Wisniewski, Moses Namara
      Pages 243-268

About this book

Online Harassment is one of the most serious problems in social media. To address it requires understanding the forms harassment takes, how it impacts the targets, who harasses, and how technology that stands between users and social media can stop harassers and protect users. The field of Human-Computer Interaction provides a unique set of tools to address this challenge. This book brings together experts in theory, socio-technical systems, network analysis, text analysis, and machine learning to present a broad set of analyses and applications that improve our understanding of the harassment problem and how to address it. 

This book tackles the problem of harassment by addressing it in three major domains. First, chapters explore how harassment manifests, including extensive analysis of the Gamer Gate incident, stylistic features of different types of harassment, how gender differences affect misogynistic harassment. Then, we look at the results of harassment, including how it drives people offline and the impacts it has on targets. Finally, we address techniques for mitigating harassment, both through automated detection and filtering and interface options that users control. Together, many branches of HCI come together to provide a comprehensive look at the phenomenon of online harassment and to advance the field toward effective human-oriented solutions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    Jennifer Golbeck

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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