Viral Hate

Viral Hate
Author: Abraham H. Foxman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0230342175

Revealing how the anonymous nature of the Internet is enabling the unchecked spread of bigotry, bullying, and other hate-based vitriol, explores the working examples of social media companies while outlining recommended steps for establishing legal policies.

Fanaticism, Racism, and Rage Online

Fanaticism, Racism, and Rage Online
Author: Adam Klein
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2017-02-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319514245

Fanaticism, Racism, and Rage Online is a critical exploration of digital hate culture and its myriad infiltrations into the modern online community. The book examines radical movements that have emerged both on the fringes of the Internet, as well as throughout the web’s most popular spaces where extremist voices now intermix with mainstream politics and popular culture. This investigation brings to light the different forms of extremist culture on the web, from the blatant hate websites, to the much more invasive faux-social networks, racist political blogs, and pseudo-scientific domains.

Racism on the Internet

Racism on the Internet
Author: Yaman Akdeniz
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789287166340

Racism was a pressing social problem long before the emergence of the digital age. The advancement of digital communication technologies such as the Internet has, however, added a new dimension to this problem by providing individuals and organisations with modern and powerful means to propagate racism and xenophobia. The use of the Internet as an instrument For The widespread dissemination of racist content is assessed in detail by the author.The problem of racist content on the Internet has naturally prompted vigorous responses from a variety of agents, including governments, supranational and international organisations and from the private sector. This book also provides a detailed critical overview of these regulatory and non-regulatory initiatives.

Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States

Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States
Author: Patricia Anne Simpson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2015-05-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0739198823

With the leverage of digital reproducibility, historical messages of hate are finding new recipients with breathtaking speed and scope. The rapid growth in popularity of right-wing extremist groups in response to transnational economic crises underscores the importance of examining in detail the language and political mobilization strategies of the New Right. In Europe, for example, populist right-wing activists organized around an anti-immigration agenda are becoming more vocal, providing pushback against the increase in migration flows from North Africa and Eastern Europe and countering support for integration with a categorical rejection of multiculturalism. In the United States, anti-immigration sentiment provides a rallying point for political and personal agendas that connect the rhetoric of borders with national, racial, and security issues. Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States is an effort to examine and understand these issues, informed by the conviction that an interdisciplinary and transnational approach can allow productive comparison of far-right propaganda strategies in Europe and the United States. With a special emphasis on performing ideology in the far-right music scene, on violent anti-immigrant stances, and on the far right’s skillful creation and manipulation of virtual communities, the contributions foreground the cultural shibboleths that are exchanged among far-right supporters on the Internet, which serve to generate a sense of group belonging and the illusion of power far greater than the known numbers of neo-Nazis in any one country might suggest. Moreover, with attention to transatlantic right-wing movements and their use of particularly digital media, the essays in this volume put pressure on the similarities among the various national agents, while accommodating differences in the virtual and sometimes violent identities created and nurtured online.

Legal Instruments for Combating Racism on the Internet

Legal Instruments for Combating Racism on the Internet
Author: Institut suisse de droit comparé
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789287165404

Various national and international legal instruments punish hate speech. However, the specific nature of the Internet calls for the adoption of new strategies to combat hate speech promoting racism and violence, which is widely and swiftly disseminated on the web. As the Internet ignores territories and has no boundaries, states cannot control it effectively by unilateral national regulation; what is needed is increased international co-operation. Efforts to harmonise national legislation - including the Additional Protocol to the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime - have come up against a series of difficulties. One of these is the fact that there is no universally accepted definition of the illegal nature of racist speech, which can be protected by the right to freedom of expression. This book describes the situation in 10 Council of Europe member and observer, states and discusses the problems faced and solutions introduced by these countries, as well as by European and international organisations and civil society.

Center for Technology and Society - The Online Hate Index - A machine learning system that detects hate targeting

Center for Technology and Society - The Online Hate Index - A machine learning system that detects hate targeting
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN:

Center for Technology and Society The Online Hate Index A machine learning system that detects hate targeting marginalized groups on online platforms How much hate is there online? Is it possible to independently evaluate tech company claims about the amount of hate on their platforms and their efforts to address it? To answer these questions, ADL Center for Technology and Society (CTS) is buildin. [...] For the Model to Scale first time, there is a way to engage in a quantitative, AI-assisted, community-based, at-scale effort to To the best of our knowledge, ADL's OHI measure and analyze identity-based online hate. [...] It is certainly the first AI tool The OHI classifier is trained by volunteers from that has been painstakingly trained by experts the Jewish community who are guided by ADL in antisemitism and members of the targeted antisemitism experts. [...] Our goal with the OHI volunteer annotators assign labels to that text (e.g., is to measure the overall prevalence of hate and antisemitic or not). [...] In our view, a key component to building just and But the model is complex, and not easily explainable effective tools for detecting hate requires the in human terms, so data scientists evaluate the perspective of those targeted by hate.

The Two Revolutions

The Two Revolutions
Author: Avery Dame-Griff
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2023-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1479818313

"The Two Revolutions tells the long history of transgender communities online, reconstructing the various digital networks of transgender activists, cross-dressing computer hobbyists, and others interested in gender nonconformity who laid the foundations for contemporary trans life"--