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oapen-20.500.12657-580122022-08-19T03:58:07Z Rethinking Social Media and Extremism Leitch, Shirley Pickering, Paul online extremism social media digital technology cybercrime electoral fraud fake news far-right violence hate speech bic Book Industry Communication::U Computing & information technology::UB Information technology: general issues::UBW Internet: general works bic Book Industry Communication::U Computing & information technology::UD Digital lifestyle::UDB Internet guides & online services::UDBS Social networking 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’? Rethinking Social Media and Extremism offers a broad range of perspectives on violent extremism online and how to stop it. As one major crisis follows another and a global pandemic accelerates our turn to digital technologies, attending to the issues raised in this book becomes ever more urgent. 2022-08-18T14:50:24Z 2022-08-18T14:50:24Z 2022 book ONIX_20220818_9781760465254_7 9781760465254 9781760465247 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58012 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International book.pdf ANU Press ANU Press 10.22459/RSME.2022 10.22459/RSME.2022 ddc8cc3f-dd57-40ef-b8d5-06f839686b71 9781760465254 9781760465247 ANU Press 194 Canberra open access
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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’? Rethinking Social Media and Extremism offers a broad range of perspectives on violent extremism online and how to stop it. As one major crisis follows another and a global pandemic accelerates our turn to digital technologies, attending to the issues raised in this book becomes ever more urgent.
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