Dissecting the relations between online and offline racism

The project involved an analysis of online racism in Victoria over five years and mapped online racism against offline events. It focussed on devising successful interventions for disrupting racism, including within Twitter, Facebook and in online news commentary. It scoped the development of useful pilot projects in digital media, such as a new app against racism. Successful examples of online racism that has been disrupted or contained was also collated. The findings point to useful pilots in digital media that can be developed and evaluated. The data helps identify successful tactics for preventing the spread of online racism into the offline world. The data also helps build predictive tools for offline racist events.