This book explores how people interact online through anonymous communication in encrypted, hidden, or otherwise obscured online spaces. The authors take into account technical, moral, ethical, and pragmatic responses to ourselves and communities seeking to be/belong in/of/ the dark.

Toija Cinque is Associate Professor of Communications (Digital Media) at Deakin University, Australia.

Alexia Maddox is Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy and Education Futures, School of Education at La Trobe University, Australia.

Robert W. Gehl is the Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice at York University in Canada.

Introduction: Digital Cultures and Acts of Refusal, Secrecy and Power across Privacy Enhancing Technologies 1. Dark Web Advertising: The Dark Magic System on Tor Hidden Service Search Engines 2. A Study of Mastodon, Galaxy3 and 8Kun as Post-social Media in Dark Webs: The Darker Turn of Our Intimate Machines 3. The Electrified Social and its Dark Alternatives: Policing and Politics in the Computational Age 4. Bad Actors Never Sleep: Content Manipulation on Reddit 5. Dark, Clear or Brackish? Using Reddit to Break Down the Binary of the Dark and Clear Web 6. The Affective Pressures of WhatsApp: From Safe Spaces to Conspiratorial Publics 7. Great AI Divides? Automated Decision-Making Technologies and Dreams of Development 8. Shedding Light on "Dark" Ads 9. Critical Data Provenance as a Methodology for Studying How Language Conceals Data Ethics 10. Writing the Feminist Internet: A Chthonian Feminist Internet Theory for the Twenty First Century Afterword: Troubling the Dark Social