Short description:

Analyzing racist harassment and hate speech on Zoom, this book examines the emergence of the practice that has become known as Zoombombing.

Long description:

This book examines Zoombombing, the racist harassment and hate speech on Zoom.

While most accounts refer to Zoombombing as simply a new style or practice of online trolling and harassment in the wake of increased videoconferencing since the outbreak of COVID-19, this volume examines it as a specifically racialized and gendered phenomenon that targets Black people and communities with racialized and gendered harassment. Racist Zoombombing brings together histories of online racism and algorithmic warfare with in-depth interviews by Black users on their experiences. The book explains how Zoombombing is a form of racial violence, interrogates our ideas about online space and community, and challenges our notions of on and off line distinction between racial harassment of Black people and communities.

A vital resource for media, culture, and communication students and scholars that are interested in race, gender, digital media, and digital culture.

Table of Contents:

Introduction 1

1 New Platform, Same Racists: How Social Media and Gaming Route Racist Hatred to Zoom 15

2 Zoom Is Memetic Warfare: Zoombombing and the Far Right 29

3 Affective Violations: Black People?s Experiences with Zoombombing 41

4 Conclusion 53