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Record Nr.

UNINA9910585947103321

Autore

Leitch Shirley

Titolo

Rethinking Social Media and Extremism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra, : ANU Press, 2022

Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-76046-525-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

PickeringPaul

Soggetti

Internet: general works

Social networking

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Table of contents

Sommario/riassunto

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.