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Patrik Olsson

Senior lecturer

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Cyberhate: the globalization of hate

Author

  • Barbara Perry
  • Patrik Olsson

Summary, in English

Increasingly, scholars are examining the ways in which the Internet allows the hate movement to retrench and reinvent itself as a viable collective. The many electronic means available to the movement – blogs, newsgroups, ’zines, etc. – allow an ease of communication and dissemination of their views never before possible. While there are obvious points of convergence across the various Klan groups, or identity churches, or skinhead organizations, the hate movement has historically been varied and, in fact, fractured. Internet communication facilitates the creation of the collective identity that is so important to movement cohesiveness. Clearly, this has strengthened the domestic presence of these groups in countries like the United States, Germany and Sweden. Yet relatively less attention has been paid to the way in which the Web facilitates the consolidation of a global movement. Internet communication knows no national boundaries. Consequently, it allows the hate movement to extend its collective identity internationally, thereby facilitating a potential ‘global racist subculture’. It is this process that we seek to uncover in this paper, with an eye to thinking about ways to intervene so as to weaken the impact.

Publishing year

2009-06

Language

English

Pages

185-199

Publication/Series

Information & Communications Technology Law

Volume

18

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Law and Society

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1469-8404