hate
Investigating the Cross-Platform Behaviours of Online Hate Groups
September 12, 2024This thesis aimed to address these limitations by developing a cross-platform analysis framework for online-hate researchers to gain a clearer understanding of the dynamics of the global hate ecosystem. More specifically, the designing of this framework involved examining the main functionalities of existing online-hate analysis frameworks, and the extent to which they address cross-platform hate. ...
Social Processes of Online Hate
August 28, 2024This book explores the social forces among and between online aggressors that affect the expression and perpetration of online hate. Its chapters illustrate how patterns of interactive social behavior reinforce, magnify, or modify this expression. It also considers the characteristics of social media that facilitate social interactions that promote hate and facilitate relationships among haters. ...
Trolling and doxxing: Graduate students sharing their research online speak out about hate
August 12, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
A dictionary of the manosphere: five terms to understand the language of online male supremacists
August 12, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Hate in the Homeland: Reorienting Our Analytic Perspective on Extremism – A Book Review
August 10, 2024VOX-Pol Blog Post. ...
Can Taking Down Websites Really Stop Terrorists and Hate Groups?
July 16, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Breaking the Building Blocks of Hate: A Case Study of Minecraft Servers
September 18, 2023The online game Minecraft, owned by Microsoft, has amassed 141 million active users since it was launched in 2011. It is used in school communities, among friend groups and even has been employed by the U.N. Despite its ubiquity as an online space, little has been reported on how hate and harassment manifest in Minecraft, ...
Hatescape: An In-Depth Analysis of Extremism and Hate Speech on TikTok
September 18, 2023This report aims to provide an in-depth analysis on the state of extremism and hate on TikTok. It is the culmination of three months of research on a sample of 1,030 videos, equivalent to just over eight hours of content, posted on the social media platform. These videos were used to promote hatred, as well ...
Online Hate: From the Far-Right to the ‘Alt-Right’ and from the Margins to the Mainstream
September 18, 2023In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was much discussion about the democratic and anti-democratic implications of the Internet. The latter particularly focused on the ways in which the far-right were using the Internet to spread hate and recruit members. Despite this common assumption, the American far-right did not harness the Internet quickly, effectively or ...