The likes of Katie Hopkins may be slowly disappearing from social media sites but less extreme and obvious racism is still widespread.
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Zoom-bombing disrupts people’s use of the Zoom platform for work, study and socializing. Zoom-bombing events have included racist and misogynist attacks on users.
‘Zoombombing’ trolls have started to infiltrate virtual meetings - bombarding unsuspecting victims with racist and sexist speech and in some cases, pornographic imagery.
Both organised groups and unaffiliated individuals spread racist hate online, but they use different channels, have different goals and use different strategies to achieve them.
Racism thrives online because of a clash between the commercial goals and ethical responsibilities of social media companies. But Australia can take legal and civil actions right now to address this.
Two websites, one taken offline, the other still active, raise hard questions about how prepared Americans are to deal with free speech about white supremacy, in both monuments and domain names.
Given recent events, you might have had an inkling that extremist views have been resonating. Researchers from the Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention have the hard data to back it up.
The physical world is racially segregated as a result of structural racism. A researcher examines whether similar problems exist online.
Today’s radical right is remaking its profile, using online communications to spread its message farther and deeper into our society than ever possible before.
Racial abuse and violence and the intertwining of ‘offline’ and ‘online’ worlds call for new methods for opposing racism in public.
Some time in the near future, federal attorney-general George Brandis will take a proposal to cabinet to amend or repeal the racial vilifications provisions (Sections 18C and 18D) of the Racial Discrimination…
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Pro Vice Chancellor Research, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Professor of Criminology, Birmingham City University
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PhD Candidate, Research Assistant and Sessional Academic, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Race Relations, Deakin University
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Professor, City University of New York
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Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Pace University
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Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
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Director, Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention, Virginia Tech
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Professor, Professional Communication, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Mellon Ph.D. Fellow, Simon Fraser University, Toronto Metropolitan University
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PhD Student of Communication & Culture, York University, Canada
