Should we be able to say what we want online? Politics, cyber-bullying and hate speech. The balance between free speech and online abuse is getting harder to define and police. What can and should be done to tackle it In this Data Debate we will discuss trolling: the practice of online…
Tolling can be usefully defined as the targeting of defamatory and antagonistic messages towards users of social media (Williams and Pearson, 2014:4) (37). Trolling broadly understood includes: cyberbullying; cyberhate; cyberstalking; cyberharassment; revenge porn; sextortion; naming and…
The MEDI@4SEC project focuses upon understanding the opportunities, challenges and ethical considerations of enhancing social media use for public security: the good, the bad and the ugly. The good comprises using social media for problem solving, fighting crime, decreasing fear of crime and…