Table of Contents

1. Online Othering’ And The Dark Side Of The Web .- 2. Online Hate Movements: From The Far-Right To The 'Alt-Right' And From The Margins To The Mainstream.- Epistemologies Of The Edge: Transgression, Social Media And The 'Alt-Right' .-  4 Libcucks, Fags And Useful Idiots: The Othering Of Oppositional White Masculinities By The ‘Alt-Right’.- 5 ‘“I Want To Kill You In Front Of Your Children” Is Not A Threat. It's An Expression Of A Desire, Not Of An Intent’: Discourses Of Trolling And Gendered Violence On A Reddit Men’s Rights Activist (MRA) Forum.- 6. Online/Offline Continuities: Online Abuse Of Feminists As A Form Of Violence Against Women.- 7. Gendered Hate On Twitter: The ‘Othering’ Of Women In Digital Spaces.- 8. Power, Pleasure And Pain: Approaching Sexting And Revenge Porn With Post-Feminism.- 9. Othering Political Women: Online Misogyny And Racism Towards Women In Public Life.- 10. The Online ‘Othering’ Of Transgender And Non-Binary People: A Discourse Analysis Of Comments On Youtube Videos On ‘Gender Neutral Toilets’.- 11. Disability Hate Speech: Interrogating The Online/Offline Distinction.- 12. Rural Racism In The Digital Age.- 13. The Dark Web Mapping Project.- 14. ‘When I Saw Women Being Attacked…It Has Made Me Want To Stand Up And Fight’: Reporting, Responding To, And Resisting Online Misogyny .- 15. Critique Of The Stalking Risk Profile: The Changing Nature Of Online Relationships In Cases Of Cyberstalking.  16. ‘Why Don’t You Just Block Them?’: Police Responses To Reports Of Online Harassment And Their Construction Of The ‘Ideal Victim’.- 17. Policing Hate Crime: The Challenges Involved In Investigating And Prosecuting Hate Crime Online.- 18. Conclusion.

About the Author

Dr Karen Lumsden is a sociologist, qualitative researcher, trainer, author and consultant. She is the author of over 40 publications including the books: Reflexivity: Theory Method and Practice, Reflexivity in Criminological Research, and Boy Racer Culture: Youth, Masculinity and Deviance. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Aberdeen and has held academic positions at Loughborough University, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Abertay Dundee and the University of Leicester. Her research interests and work focuses on policing, victims, online abuse, critiques of the neoliberal academy, and qualitative methods including reflexivity, ethnography and narrative inquiry.

Emily Harmer is Lecturer in Media at the Department of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool, UK. Her research analyses the relationship between media and politics, with specific interest in gendered political communication. She has published in a range of journals including Media, Culture and Society and Feminist Media Studies.