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Resolution
Resolution acknowledges that whether it was Samuel Little setting his spiderweb to catch disadvantaged and disempowered women in the ghettos, Rodney...
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Examining the Physical Manifestation of Alt-Right Gangs: From Online Trolling to Street Fighting
This chapter explores how social media have allowed Alt-Right gangs to advance not only their ideology and subculture online, but to facilitate...
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Rethinking Cybercrime Critical Debates
The book provides a contemporary ‘snapshot’ of critical debate centred around cybercrime and related issues, to advance theoretical development and...
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‘“I Want to Kill You in Front of Your Children” Is Not a Threat. It’s an Expression of a Desire’: Discourses of Online Abuse, Trolling and Violence on r/MensRights
This chapter adds to the growing body of literature on online misogyny and studies of Reddit by focusing on an online culture which perpetrates and...
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Beyond Black and White: the Intersection of Ideologies in Online Extremist Communities
Current literature on online criminal and deviant groups recognises the role of online forums in the transfer of knowledge and socialisation of...
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Players Don’t Die, They Respawn: a Situational Analysis of Toxic Encounters Arising from Death Events in League of Legends
Online death events constitute integral parts of many competitive online multiplayer games. Nonetheless, research has identified death events as...
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Menschenverachtende Online-Kommunikation – Phänomene und Gegenstrategien
Internetmedien, insbesondere Social Media, besitzen aufgrund der hohen Reichweite und der geringen Zugangsbarrieren demokratisierendes Potenzial....
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Mainstreaming the Blackpill: Understanding the Incel Community on TikTok
Incels (involuntary celibates), a subgroup of the so called ‘manosphere,’ have become an increasing security concern for policymakers, researchers,...
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Can Risk Society and the Ideology of Motherhood Explain the Continued Hostility Towards the McCanns on Social Media?
This chapter does not speculate on or make any judgements with regard to what has happened to Madeleine McCann or who is responsible for her...
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CyberTerrorism: Some Insights from Owen’s Genetic-Social Framework
The following chapter draws upon the latest incarnation of the ever-evolving, meta-theoretical, Genetic-Social framework, recently employed by (Owen...
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Cucks, Fags and Useful Idiots: The Othering of Dissenting White Masculinities Online
Online forums have provided fertile ground for the coalescence and growth of new manifestations of extreme-right communities, often referred to as...
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The Cost of Violence Against Women in Africa
Violence is widespread in Africa, as it is in other parts of the world. However, violence is particularly costly for Africa. Due to diverse factors,...
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Introduction
The incidence of crime is far greater than is captured by official statistics thus most offenses are never detected, a concept known as the dark...
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Alternate Realities, Alternate Internets: African Feminist Research for a Feminist Internet
For the past decade, internet connectivity has been praised for its potential to close the gender gap across Africa. However, despite the benefits...
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Women, Crime, and Media, Global and Pakistani Context
Media representations of women charged or convicted of crime reflect prevalent gender attitudes and standards. They may influence judgments, public...
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Rapid Cascades, Coupled Crises
Improved peacemaking, and step by step progress toward abolition of Weapons of Mass Destruction helps prevent environmental, pandemic, and financial...
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Check All That Apply: Challenges in Tracking Ideological Movements That Motivate Right-Wing Terrorism
Right-wing violence is comprised of a diverse set of movements that include extremists motivated by a range of distinct, yet related ideologies, and...
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Trolling, the Ugly Face of the Social Network
Much of modern social interaction takes place using digital communications, using the Smartphone and tablet devices which have seemingly become...