Cyberhate is defined as racist, discriminatory, negationist and violent statements made on social network platforms, text platforms, comment pages, and more. The Handbook on Cyber Hate, the Modern Cyber Evil, includes twenty-seven chapters from scholars representing over fifteen countries from the Global North and the Global South demonstrating a range of multi-faceted perspectives. While providing such a focus, these papers will also operate with a constantly evolving conceptualization of contemporary societies and their modern cyber-evil. Indeed, modern cyber-evil is a global concern and is primarily based on human minds and activities, and on deviant uses of modern technologies, which may differ ideologically, historically and culturally on the global map of modern legal systems. This plurality of perspectives, which poses a challenge to our future, is a strength of this handbook that offers a variety of foundations, legal perspectives, and popular developments in an effort to suggest measures to combat this modern cyber-evil infecting communications around the world.

Editors Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek offer a unique collection of chapters involving the theoretical foundations, legal perspectives, and societal perspectives from popular culture of modern cyber evil in order to address and combat racism on the basis of alleged race, skin color, nationality, descent and national or ethnic origin, etc.; discrimination/xenophobia on the basis of sex, gender, sexual orientation, religious or philosophical beliefs, health status, physical characteristics, etc.; hatred; violence; e-predation; and e-victimization.

Prof. Anne Wagner (Ph.D. and Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Private Law) is Research Associate Professor at Lille University, ULR 4487- Centre de Recherche Droits et Perspectives du Droit (France). Her main research lies in visual jurisprudence, legal semiotics, visual studies, and law and the Humanities. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the "International Journal for the Semiotics of Law" (Springer), President of the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law, Series Co-Editor of "Law, Language and Communication" (Routledge), Series Co-Editor of "Gender, Justice and Legal Feminism", "Law and Visual Jurisprudence" and "Living Signs of Law" (Springer). ORCID: 0000-0001-6362-9023.

Prof. Sarah Marusek (PhD, UMass Amherst, Political Science 2008) is Professor of Public Law at the University of Hawai'i Hilo (USA). Her research interests in jurisprudence focus on exploring how law works in everyday life. She has published widely in the areas of legal semiotics, legal geography, everyday jurisprudence, constitutive legal theory, and law and society. She is the Associate Editor for the "International Journal for the Semiotics of Law" (Springer), Vice President of the International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law, and Series Co-Editor of "Law and Visual Jurisprudence" and "Living Signs of Law" (Springer). ORCID : 0000-0002-7589-9503.

Navigating the Murky Waters of Modern Cyber Evil.- Part I. Theoretical Explorations of Modern Cyber Evil.- On Cyber-Envy.- Cyberhate. On shaping the public agenda by assembling contentious issues.- Reclaiming Moderation: Towards a Model of Moderated Counterspeech in the Digital Public Sphere.- Cyberhate: Medium? Message? Speech? Act? An Exploration.- Hate speech anthropologies. Evil, democracy, and social media: between Popper and Girard.- CYBERHATE FROM REASON TO EMOTIONS - Influencers and the Colombian Virtual Agora.- Cyber Hate Speech Detection and Analysis - An Evidence-based Forensic Linguistics Approach.- Between Freedom of Speech and Hate Speech: Similarities between Stages of Genocide and Aggression in Modern Media.- Rethinking hate speech and cyberhate concepts: The case of smear campaigns against judges in Poland.- Part II. Legal Perspectives on Modern Cyber Evil.- Legal-Linguistic Typology of Hate Speech as a Matrix for its Legal Regulation.- The legal categorisation of cyber hate: a corpus-assisted exploration of prompting, inciting, insulting and making contemptuous in hate speech discourse.- Bringing cyber-hate under control through a pro-active legal approach: an Australian case study.- Social Media and Online Trolling: Examining the Legal Developments in Platform Responsibilities for Tackling Trolling in the US, UK, and Australia.- Online Hate Speech under International Law.- "...a matter of grave concern": Online hate speech in Ireland at the intersection of legislation and case law.- Different Facets of Cyber-hate in Russia and Controversial Legal Responses.- Online Discrimination Based on COVID-19: A Language and Law Perspective.- A Comparative Analysis of Anti-Cyberbullying Laws between Russia and China.- Part III. Cyber Evil in Society and Popular Culture.- The crime of fat shaming: between cyber bullying and racism.- Cyberbullying Movies: The Relevance of the Cinematic Portrayal of Cyberbullying.- Countering the Cyber-evil Narrative on Racism; Cultural Representation and The Potential Good of Cyberspace.- Textual and Non-Verbal Expressions of Cyberhate in South African Social Media Misconduct Dismissals.- Abuse of Rhizomatic Internet Memes: Disruptive Non-Verbal Discourse.- Aggressive E-Communication Among Teenagers: A Field Study.- Hegemonic Masculinity and beyond: an overview of social science and interdisciplinary research on the manosphere.