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.

• 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

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: Discourses of Manipulation and Cyber-Crime, Nuria Lorenzo-Dus analyzes the criminal practices of digital sexual grooming, digital ideological grooming, and digital commercial grooming. The findings of this book can inform practitioner-based attempts at countering digital grooming, including the development of detection software and prevention-focused training resources.