Title Guns on the Internet : online gun communities, First Amendment protections, and the search for common ground on gun control / Connie Hassett-Walker

Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Key Points in the Gun Control Debate; Gun Subculture: Homophily, Sharing, Signaling, Reinforcing; Online Subculture, Generally and Gun-Related; Prior Research on Online Crime, Deviance, and Guns (and Gun Advocacy); Focus of this Book; Some Caveats; Notes; References; Cases; PART I: The Tour: Guns, the Internet and Social Media; 2. How Gun Owners Use Social Media and the Internet; Gun Owner Survey; Use of Social Media and the Internet Facebook Usage: Homophily, Sharing and Signaling, and ReinforcingYouTube Usage; Twitter Usage; Perceived Influence of the Internet and Social Media on the Second Amendment Debate; The Take-Away About Gun Owners' Usage of the Internet and Social Media; Representativeness of the Survey Findings; A Concluding Comment; Notes; References; 3. Gun Owner Communities on the Internet; Suzie Sportswoman on Facebook; Chronology of Postings and Community Responses to Postings; Facebook Friends and the Community Groups of Suzie Sportswoman's FB Friends Membership in Facebook Closed Groups for Gun Rights and Gun ControlGun Videos on YouTube; Gun-Related Forums; The Take-Away About Gun Owner Social Media Communities; Notes; References; 4. Politicians and Lobbyists Online Talking Guns; Advocacy Organizations on Facebook; Gun Rights and Gun Control Blogs; Comparing the NRA, GOA and Brady Blogs; Searching Terms across the Blogs; How the 2016 Presidential Candidates Did and Didn't Tweet about Guns after a Shooting; Do the Internet and Social Media Influence the Debate Over Gun Control? Advocates and Legislators in their Own Words The Take-Away on Lobby Organizations, Politicians/Legislators, Guns and Social MediaNotes; References; 5. Women in Online Gun Subculture; How Many Women Gun Owners are There? Why do Women use Guns?; Signaling and Reinforcing that Women Who Shoot are Feminine and Non-Threatening; Signaling and Reinforcing Women as Mothers and Victims; Images of Women and Guns on Social Media; Other Gun-Related Objectification and Courting of Women Online; The Take-Away About Women in Online Gun Subculture; Notes; References PART II: First Amendment Protections for Gun-Related Online Content: Balancing the Right to Free Speech with the Need for Public Safety6. The First Amendment and the Internet; Protected Speech or Not? Pre-Internet First Amendment Court Cases; Protecting vs. Restricting Online Speech; Protecting vs. Restricting Hate Speech; Libraries and Protecting vs. Restricting Obscenity; Protecting vs. Restricting Speech That May Lead to Violence or Murder; Applying the Above-Presented Framework to Gun-Related Online Speech; Notes; References; Cases Summary Gun rights and control are well-trodden subjects, with prior work supporting the right of citizens to own firearms, discussing the failure of gun control efforts, or warning about or exhorting citizen gun ownership, among other things. Although social media in their many forms have only come to dominate modern U.S. life during the past decade, there has been little academic exploration of gun owner communities on the Internet and social media. How do gun owners use social media? How do they meet other gun owners online? What do they talk about as relates to guns? With a massive and well-organized collection of support material, Guns on the Internet faces these questions with an unbiased approach that seeks a foundation for mutual understanding. The book delves into the question of whether gun-related content on social media platforms should receive free speech protection under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and explores the possibility of using social media to reach common ground between gun rights and gun control supporters--back cover Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 23, 2018) Subject Firearms ownership -- United States Internet -- Social aspects -- United States Gun control -- United States BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Firearms ownership Gun control Internet -- Social aspects United States Form Electronic book LC no. 2018012710 ISBN 9780429486661 0429486669 9780429943645 0429943644

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