The emergence of the World Wide Web, smartphones, and computers has transformed the
world and enabled individuals to engage in crimes in a multitude of new ways …

National governments now recognize online hate speech as a pernicious social problem. In
the wake of political votes and terror attacks, hate incidents online and offline are known to …

New and emerging forms of data, including posts harvested from social media sites such as
Twitter, have become part of the sociologist's data diet. In particular, some researchers see …

The use of “Big Data” in policy and decision making is a current topic of debate. The 2013
murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, London, UK led to an extensive public reaction …

The development of sixth‐generation (6G) wireless communication technology is expected
to provide super high‐speed data transmission, and advanced network performance than …

Criminality in cyberspace has been the subject of much debate since the 1990s, yet
comparatively little attention has been paid to technology-facilitated sexual violence and …

This paper specifies, designs and critically evaluates two tools for the automated
identification of demographic data (age, occupation and social class) from the profile …

Now in its fourth edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly
updated and substantially rewritten. The volume offers a systematic introduction to …

Abuse directed at visible and audible women demonstrates that cyberspace, once heralded
as a new, democratic, public sphere, suffers similar gender inequalities as the offline world …

This paper presents the first criminological analysis of an online social reaction to a crime
event of national significance, in particular the detection and propagation of cyberhate on …