Terrorism, global pandemics, climate change, wars and all the major threats of our age have been targets of online extremism. The same social media occupying the heartland of our social world leaves us vulnerable to cybercrime, electoral fraud and the ‘fake news’ fuelling the rise of far-right violence and hate speech. In the face of widespread calls for action, governments struggle to reform legal and regulatory frameworks designed for an analogue age. And what of our rights as citizens? As politicians and lawyers run to catch up to the future as it disappears over the horizon, who guarantees our right to free speech, to free and fair elections, to play video games, to surf the Net, to believe ‘fake news’?
Author(s): Shirley Leitch, Paul Pickering
Series: Australia and the World
Publisher: ANU Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 194
City: Canberra
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Contributors
1. Rethinking social media and extremism
2. The making of a ‘made for social media’ massacre
3. Becoming civic actors
4. Hate the player, not the game: Why did the Christchurch shooter’s video look like a game?
5. Brand lone wolf: The importance of brand narrative in creating extremists
6. ‘Clumsy and flawed in many respects’: Australia’s abhorrent violent material legislation
7. Coarse and effect: Normalised anger online as an essential precondition to violence
8. Performances of power – the site of public debate
9. Crisis, what crisis?
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