Online Othering: Exploring Digital Violence and Discrimination on the Web

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
 Online Othering: An Introduction  (Emily Harmer, Karen Lumsden)....Pages 1-33
Front Matter ....Pages 35-38
 Online Hate: From the Far-Right to the ‘Alt-Right’ and from the Margins to the Mainstream  (Aaron Winter)....Pages 39-63
 Cucks, Fags and Useful Idiots: The Othering of Dissenting White Masculinities Online  (Alex Green)....Pages 65-89
 ‘“I Want to Kill You in Front of Your Children” Is Not a Threat. It’s an Expression of a Desire’: Discourses of Online Abuse, Trolling and Violence on r/MensRights  (Karen Lumsden)....Pages 91-115
Front Matter ....Pages 117-120
 Online/Offline Continuities: Exploring Misogyny and Hate in Online Abuse of Feminists  (Ruth Lewis, Mike Rowe, Clare Wiper)....Pages 121-143
 ‘The Price of Admission’: On Notions of Risk and Responsibility in Women’s Sexting Practices  (Rikke Amundsen)....Pages 145-164
 ‘There’s a Bit of Banter’: How Male Teenagers ‘Do Boy’ on Social Networking Sites  (John Whittle, Dave Elder-Vass, Karen Lumsden)....Pages 165-186
 Othering Political Women: Online Misogyny, Racism and Ableism Towards Women in Public Life  (Rosalynd Southern, Emily Harmer)....Pages 187-210
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 The ‘Online Othering’ of Transgender People in Relation to ‘Gender Neutral Toilets’  (Ben Colliver, Adrian Coyle, Marisa Silvestri)....Pages 215-237
 Young Men with Physical Disabilities Struggle for Digital Sex(uality)  (Herminder Kaur)....Pages 239-258
 Rural Racism in the Digital Age  (Nathan Kerrigan)....Pages 259-279
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 ‘When I Saw Women Being Attacked … It Made Me Want to Stand Up and Fight’: Reporting, Responding to, and Resisting Online Misogyny  (Jo Smith)....Pages 287-308
 Disability Hate Speech: Interrogating the Online/Offline Distinction  (Philippa Hall)....Pages 309-330
 Challenges in Policing Cyberstalking: A Critique of the Stalking Risk Profile in the Context of Online Relationships  (Brianna O’Shea, Roberta Julian, Jeremy Prichard, Sally Kelty)....Pages 331-353
 ‘Why Don’t You Block Them?’ Police Officers’ Constructions of the Ideal Victim When Responding to Reports of Interpersonal Cybercrime  (Alex Black, Karen Lumsden, Lee Hadlington)....Pages 355-378
 Conclusion: Researching ‘Online Othering’—Future Agendas and Lines of Inquiry  (Emily Harmer, Karen Lumsden)....Pages 379-395
Back Matter ....Pages 397-407