1st Edition
The Dark Social Online Practices of Resistance, Motility and Power
Introduction: Digital Cultures and Acts of Refusal, Secrecy and Power across Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Toija Cinque, Alexia Maddox and Robert W. Gehl
1. Dark Web Advertising: The Dark Magic System on Tor Hidden Service Search Engines
Robert W. Gehl
2. A Study of Mastodon, Galaxy3 and 8Kun as Post-social Media in Dark Webs: The Darker Turn of Our Intimate Machines
Toija Cinque
3. The Electrified Social and its Dark Alternatives: Policing and Politics in the Computational Age
Alexia Maddox and Luke Heemsbergen
4. Bad Actors Never Sleep: Content Manipulation on Reddit
Martin Potter
5. Dark, Clear or Brackish? Using Reddit to Break Down the Binary of the Dark and Clear Web
Simon Copland
6. The Affective Pressures of WhatsApp: From Safe Spaces to Conspiratorial Publics
Amelia Johns and Niki Cheong
7. Great AI Divides? Automated Decision-Making Technologies and Dreams of Development
Jolynna Sinanan and Thomas McNamara
8. Shedding Light on “Dark” Ads
Verity Trott, Luzhou Li, Robbie Fordyce and Mark Andrejevic
9. Critical Data Provenance as a Methodology for Studying How Language Conceals Data Ethics
Robbie Fordyce and Suneel Jethani
10. Writing the Feminist Internet: A Chthonian Feminist Internet Theory for the Twenty First Century
Nancy Mauro-Flude
Afterword: Troubling the Dark Social
Melinda Hinkson, Roland Kapferer and P. David Marshall
Biography
Toija Cinque is Associate Professor of Communications (Digital Media) at Deakin University, Australia.
Alexia Maddox is Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy and Education Futures, School of Education at La Trobe University, Australia.
Robert W. Gehl is the Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice at York University in Canada.
