Social Processes of Online Hate

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p>