This book explores the discrimination encountered and propagated by individuals in online
environments. The editors develop the concept of 'online othering' as a tool through which to
analyse and make sense of the myriad toxic and harmful behaviours which are being created
through or perpetuated via the use of communication-technologies such as the internet social
media and 'the internet of things'. The book problematises the dichotomy assumed between real
and virtual spaces by exploring the construction of online abuse victims' experiences
resistance to online othering and the policing of interpersonal cyber-crime. The relationship
between various socio-political institutions and experiences of online hate speech are also
explored. Online Othering explores the extent to which forms of information-technologies
facilitate exacerbate and or promote the enactment of traditional offline offences (such as
domestic abuse and stalking). It focuses on the construction and perpetration of online abuse
through examples such as the far-right the alt-right and Men's Rights Activists. It also
explores experiences of and resistance to online abuse via examples such as victims'
experiences of revenge porn online abuse and misogyny transphobia disability hate crime and
the ways in which online othering is intersectional. Finally the collection addresses the role
of the police and other agencies in terms of their interventions and the regulation and
governance of virtual space(s). Contributions to the volume come from fields including
sociology communication and media studies psychology criminology political studies
information science and gender studies. Online Othering is one of the very first collections to
explore a multitude of abuses and their relationship to information and communication
technology.
