1st Edition

Islamophobia in Cyberspace Hate Crimes Go Viral

By Imran Awan Copyright 2016
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

Cyber hate can take many different forms from online material which can lead to actual offline abuse and violence, cyber violence; cyber stalking, and online harassment with the use of visual images, videos, chat rooms, text and social media which are intended to cause harm. This book examines the case for current guidelines dealing with online anti-Muslim abuse and concludes that we require... Read more

Introduction, (Imran Awan)



1. Cyber-Islamophobia and internet hate crime, (Imran Awan)



2. Virtual Islamophobia: the eight faces of anti-Muslim trolls on Twitter, (Imran Awan)



3. The normalisation of Islamophobia through social media: Facebook, (Andre Oboler)



4. Online hate and political activist groups, (Brian Blakemore)



5. The media impact of online Islamophobia: an analysis of the Woolwich murder, (Mohammed Rahman)



6. The psychology of online Islamophobia, (Jane Prince)



7. Legislation and international frameworks tackling online Islamophobia, (Ewan Kirk)



8. Policing anti-Muslim hate crime on the internet, (Imran Awan)



9. The experiences of victims of online Islamophobia, (F. Jeane Gerard and Kate C. Whitfield)



10. Islamophobia, hate crime and the internet, (Imran Awan)



Index

Biography

Imran Awan is Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University, UK. He is the co-editor of Policing Cyber-Hate, Cyber-Threats and Cyber-Terrorism (Ashgate, 2012) and Extremism, Counter-terrorism and Policing (Ashgate, 2013).

’The issue of hate on the internet has emerged as one of the greatest challenges facing those charged with reducing harmful hate cases in our societies, particularly since the proliferation of social media. Muslims in Europe have felt this online hostility as keenly as other communities and this is a serious text that will be valuable to any reader looking to better understand the nature of anti-Muslim hostility and how it is expressed online.' Paul Giannasi, Manager of the UK Government Hate Crime Programme