This book highlights cyber racism as an ever growing contemporary phenomenon. Its scope and
impact reveals how the internet has escaped national governments while its expansion is
fuelling the spread of non-state actors. In response the authors address the central question
of this topic: What is to be done? Cyber Racism and Community Resilience demonstrates how the
social sciences can be marshalled to delineate comprehend and address the issues raised by a
global epidemic of hateful acts against race. Authored by an inter-disciplinary team of
researchers based in Australia this book presents original data that reflects upon the lived
complex and often painful reality of race relations on the internet. It engages with the
various ways from the regulatory to the role of social activist which can be deployed to
minimise the harm often felt. This book will be of particular interest to students and
academics in the fields of cybercrime media sociology and cyber racism.
