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Researching Cyber Racism: Methodologies and Methods Across Disciplines

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Cyber Racism and Community Resilience

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This chapter offers a broad description of how the pathway from disciplinary framework to research question, to method, to research outcome operates in the study of cyber racism. That is, how scholars have sought to define the particular characteristics of the Internet and social media in relation to race-targeting hate speech. This is then put in the context of the Cyber Racism and Community Resilience Project in terms of how it has been used to define the research questions and approaches taken to understand the phenomena.

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  1. School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia

    Andrew Jakubowicz

  2. Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia

    Kevin Dunn & Rosalie Atie

  3. Law School, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Gail Mason

  4. Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia

    Yin Paradies

  5. Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia

    Ana-Maria Bliuc

  6. La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

    Nasya Bahfen & Andre Oboler

  7. University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia

    Karen Connelly

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Jakubowicz, A. et al. (2017). Researching Cyber Racism: Methodologies and Methods Across Disciplines. In: Cyber Racism and Community Resilience. Palgrave Hate Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64388-5_2

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