
Digital Grooming
Discourses of Manipulation and Cyber-Crime
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 19. December 2022
Book
Hardback
266 pages
978-0-19-084519-3 (ISBN)
Description
Illicit digital activity is a substantial and growing problem. Extremists' use of social media over the past decade or so has raised increasing concern among governments and media corporations alike. In Digital Grooming Nuria Lorenzo-Dus analyzes manipulation practices in digital spaces that are situated at, or beyond, the boundaries of law. Lorenzo-Dus identifies and examines in detail the online discourse of adults luring children for sexual abuse and exploitation (digital sexual grooming); extreme ideology groups aligning others to their views (digital ideological grooming); and drug dealers soliciting business in crypto markets (digital commercial grooming). With sophisticated style and stance analyses of large and varied datasets, the book reveals that digital sexual, ideological, and commercial grooming practices have much in common. Three stances--expertise, openness, and avidity--scaffold this manipulative work, which constructs groomers and their targets as sharing a homogenous identity.
By shedding new light on grooming practices, this book provides a key resource for discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, communication, and media studies, as well as for practitioners aiming to counter online grooming through policy changes, detection software, and prevention-focused training to promote digital civility and safety.
By shedding new light on grooming practices, this book provides a key resource for discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, communication, and media studies, as well as for practitioners aiming to counter online grooming through policy changes, detection software, and prevention-focused training to promote digital civility and safety.
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The analysis included here provides a valuable tool for understanding the nature and dynamics of the problem relevant to the fields of discourse analysis, communications, forensic linguistics, and media, as well as for policy makers and practitioners seeking to make meaningful change. * Choice *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
25 figures and tables
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-084519-3 (9780190845193)
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Person
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus is Professor of Linguistics at Swansea University. She is the author or editor of several books including Television Discourse: Analysing Language in the Media and Spanish at Work: Analysing Institutional Discourse Across the Spanish-Speaking World, and is the director of Project DRAGON-S, which develops linguistically informed digital tools to help counter online child sexual grooming globally.
Content
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Digital Grooming: What Is it and How to Research it?
Chapter 3: Digital Sexual Grooming: Setting the Scene
Chapter 4: 'You're like my only friend, idc if you are 12': Digital Sexual Grooming Discourse
Chapter 5: Digital Ideological Grooming: Setting the Scene
Chapter 6: 'Let them starve, you idiots!!! Why feed VERMIN?': Digital Ideological Grooming Discourse
Chapter 7: Digital Commercial Grooming: Setting the Scene
Chapter 8: 'Your DrugBuddy': Digital commercial Grooming Discourse
Chapter 9: Digital Grooming: Applications to Daily Life
References
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Digital Grooming: What Is it and How to Research it?
Chapter 3: Digital Sexual Grooming: Setting the Scene
Chapter 4: 'You're like my only friend, idc if you are 12': Digital Sexual Grooming Discourse
Chapter 5: Digital Ideological Grooming: Setting the Scene
Chapter 6: 'Let them starve, you idiots!!! Why feed VERMIN?': Digital Ideological Grooming Discourse
Chapter 7: Digital Commercial Grooming: Setting the Scene
Chapter 8: 'Your DrugBuddy': Digital commercial Grooming Discourse
Chapter 9: Digital Grooming: Applications to Daily Life
References