Editors:
- Develops the innovative concept of online othering to help explore and analyse online abuse and hate in various contexts.
- Offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the online cultures which engage in forms of online othering and abuse.
- Presents victims' experiences of online othering and acts of resistance.
- Informs the future regulation and policing of online hate and abuse.
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity (PSCYBER)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Online Culture Wars: The Rise of the Alt-Right, Trumpism and White Masculinities
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Front Matter
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Experiences of Online Abuse: Gendered Othering, Sexism and Misogyny
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Front Matter
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Online Exclusion: Boundaries, Spaces and Intersectionality
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Front Matter
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Responding to, Regulating and Policing Online Hate
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book explores the discrimination encountered and propagated by individuals in online environments. The editors develop the concept of 'online othering' as a tool through which to analyse and make sense of the myriad toxic and harmful behaviours which are being created through, or perpetuated via, the use of communication-technologies such as the internet, social media, and ‘the internet of things’. The book problematises the dichotomy assumed between real and virtual spaces by exploring the construction of online abuse, victims' experiences, resistance to online othering, and the policing of interpersonal cyber-crime. The relationship between various socio-political institutions and experiences of online hate speech are also explored.
Online Othering explores the extent to which forms of information-technologies facilitate, exacerbate, and/or promote the enactment of traditional offline offences (such as domestic abuse and stalking). It focuses on the construction and perpetration of online abuse through examples such as the far-right, the alt-right and Men's Rights Activists. It also explores experiences of, and resistance to, online abuse via examples such as victims' experiences of revenge porn, online abuse and misogyny, transphobia, disability hate crime, and the ways in which online othering is intersectional. Finally, the collection addresses the role of the police and other agencies in terms of their interventions, and the regulation and governance of virtual space(s). Contributions to the volume come from fields including sociology; communication and media studies; psychology; criminology; political studies; information science and gender studies. Online Othering is one of the very first collections to explore a multitude of abuses and their relationship to information and communication technology.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Independent Researcher, Leicester, UK
Karen Lumsden
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Department of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Emily Harmer
About the editors
Dr Karen Lumsden is a sociologist, qualitative researcher, trainer, author and consultant. She is the author of over 40 publications including the books: Reflexivity: Theory Method and Practice, Reflexivity in Criminological Research, and Boy Racer Culture: Youth, Masculinity and Deviance. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Aberdeen and has held academic positions at Loughborough University, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Abertay Dundee and the University of Leicester. Her research interests and work focuses on policing, victims, online abuse, critiques of the neoliberal academy, and qualitative methods including reflexivity, ethnography and narrative inquiry.
Emily Harmer is Lecturer in Media at the Department of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool, UK. Her research analyses the relationship between media and politics, with specific interest in gendered political communication. She has published in a range of journals including Media, Culture and Society and Feminist Media Studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Online Othering
Book Subtitle: Exploring Digital Violence and Discrimination on the Web
Editors: Karen Lumsden, Emily Harmer
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12633-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12632-2Published: 06 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12635-3Published: 28 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12633-9Published: 23 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-2770
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2789
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 407
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cybercrime, Victimology, Crime and the Media, Violence and Crime, Culture and Technology, Policing