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Cyberhate: The Far Right in the Digital Age explores how right-wing extremists operate in cyberspace by examining their propaganda, funding, subcultures, movements, offline violence, and the ideologies that drive it. Scholars and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines and professions including criminal justice, psychology, cybersecurity, religion, law, education, and terrorism studies contribute to provide an extensive analysis of the far-right online political landscape. Specific topics include laws surrounding cyberhate, propaganda, bitcoin funding, online subcultures such as the manosphere, theories that explain why some take the path of violence, and specific movements including the alt-right and the terroristic Atomwaffen Division. Relying on manifestos and other correspondence posted online by recent perpetrators of mass murder, this book focuses on specific groups, individuals, and acts of violence to explain how concepts like "white genocide" and incel ideology have motivated recent deadly violence.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Welcome to Cyberspace by Michael Hoffman
Chapter 2: Looks Can Be Deceiving: The Challenges of Recognizing Hate in Cyberspace by
Robin Maria Valeri
Chapter 3: Is Hate Against the Law? Legal Responses to Cyberhate by Janine Fodor
Chapter 4: Bitcoin: The Currency of White Supremacists by John Bambenek
Chapter 5: Accelerating Hate: Atomwaffen Division, Contemporary Digital Fascism, and
Insurrectionary Accelerationism by Michael Loadenthal, Samantha Hausserman, and
Matthew Thierry
Chapter 6: When Cyberhate Turns to Violence: White Nationalism to the Manosphere by Kevin
Borgeson and James Bacigalupo
Chapter 7: The Alt-Right: Breaking into the Mainstream by James Bacigalupo and Kevin
Borgeson
Chapter 8 Responding to Cyberhate by James Bacigalupo
About the author
James Bacigalupo is a doctoral student in the criminology and justice studies program at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.Kevin Borgeson is associate professor of criminal justice at Salem State University and former Research Fellow for the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Robin Maria Valeri is professor of psychology and Director of the Center for Nonviolence at St. Bonaventure University.Robin Maria Valeri is professor of psychology and Director of the Center for Nonviolence at St. Bonaventure University.James Bacigalupo is a doctoral student in the criminology and justice studies program at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.Kevin Borgeson is associate professor of criminal justice at Salem State University and former Research Fellow for the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Robin Maria Valeri is professor of psychology and Director of the Center for Nonviolence at St. Bonaventure University.Robin Maria Valeri is professor of psychology and Director of the Center for Nonviolence at St. Bonaventure University.
Summary
Cyberhate: The Far-Right in the Digital Age explores the online world of right-wing political extremism by examining the propaganda, funding mechanisms, online subcultures, violent movements, and the ideologies that drive it.
