Full Description
Do digital networks make a difference to the scope, scale and severity of social harm? Considering four distinct digital affordances for crime (access, concealment, evasion and incitement) this book asks whether they are simply new packaging for old problems, with no greater effect on society overall - or is cyberculture significantly escalating illegality?
Matthew David gives fresh insights into online harms and behaviours in the fields of hate, obscenity, corruptions of citizenship and appropriation, offering a comprehensive and integrated approach for those both new and experienced in the field of cybercrime.
Contents
1. Introduction
Part I: Hate
2. Terrorism and Hate Crime: From the Long Fuse to Hate Speech
3. Bullying, Stalking and Trolling
Part II: Obscenity
4. Pornography and Violent Video Games
5. Child Abuse Imagery, Abuse and Grooming
Part III: Corruptions of Citizenship
6. Privacy, Surveillance, Whistleblowers and Hacktivism
7. Fake News, Echo Chambers and Citizen Journalism
Part IV: Appropriation
8. Fraud, Extortion and Identity Theft
9. Sharing Software, Music and Visual Content
10. Conclusions
