What is it about?
In this timely and disturbing book, Foxman and Wolf elucidate that the scope of the challenge is nevertheless significant. The Internet is a vast ocean of knowledge, data, ideologies and propaganda. It is omnipresent, interactive, fast and decentralized. The ease of access to the Internet, its low cost and speed, its chaotic structure (or lack of structure), the anonymity which individuals and groups may enjoy, and the international character of the world-wide-web furnish all kinds of individuals and organizations an easy and effective arena for their partisan interests. The Internet contains some of the best written products of humanity, and some of the worst ones.
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Why is it important?
Hate speech might lead to hate crimes.
Perspectives
This well-written book will be of interest to political scientists, lawyers, sociologists and Internet scholars who study manifestations of hate speech on the New Media.
Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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This page is a summary of: Book Review: General Politics: Viral Hate: Containing Its Spread on the Internet, Political Studies Review, April 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1111/1478-9302.12087_70.
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