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 LorenzoDus analyzes manipulation practices in digital spaces that are situated at or beyond the boundaries of law LorenzoDus 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 stancesexpertise openness and avidityscaffold 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 preventionfocused training to promote digital civility and safety