UC Santa Barbara undergraduates now have a class to help them process some of the troublesome issues related to those divisive and derogatory comments: Perspectives on Online Hate Speech, developed and taught by Department of Communication Professor Joe Walther, and Mark and Susan Bertelsen Presidential Chair in Technology and Society. This upper-division communication course delves into the research and theory behind online hate messages, which include racist and sexist postings, harassment and toxicity. Students dissect online hate as an interactive social process, uncovering what drives it and examining what can and cannot be done to stop it. For full story, see https://magazine.ucsb.edu/index.php/fall-winter-2024/critical-look-inside-back-room