ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of how the chapters examine the social processes that motivate and propel individuals and groups to generate, coordinate, and propagate hate messages online. The first section summarizes the growth of print media and research coverage of online hate. The second section then provides an integrated review of themes across the chapters. Three subsections summarize the overall social processes’ model (e.g., propositions, results), describe the contexts for these social processes (e.g., perpetrators, venues), and highlight three of the main methodological themes of the chapters (e.g., big data, lexical, and computational approaches). The chapter ends by noting some interventions to online hate and challenges to future research.
