Online multimedia makes hate groups appear mainstream and recruits young members

Evidence

A development that obviously occurred after Allport’s (1954/1979) time is the recent scrutiny of hate speech on the internet (e.g., Glaser & Dixit, 2002; Leets, 2001), or what has come to be called “cyberhate” (Levin, 2002). White racist internet chat rooms and websites (e.g., www.Stormfront.org) include music, graphics, and videogames, which may enhance the extent to which hate groups can appear to be mainstream and thereby recruit young members. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1300

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the moral-panic literature and to how new media vehicles reshape prejudice expression; parallels the cyberhate and online radicalization research that followed. — connects to: Automated recommendation feeds can expose teenagers to thousands of radicalizing videos — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 381
• QUESTION: Whether online hate speech is genuinely different in kind or just a faster vehicle remains unresolved here and bears on modern platform-regulation debates.