Cloaked Sites

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Description

"Cloaked websites are published by individuals or groups who conceal authorship in order to deliberately disguise a hidden political agenda. In this way, these sites are similar to previous versions of print media propaganda, such as “black,” “white” and “grey” propaganda."


Examples

Jessie Daniels:

"In my latest book, Cyber Racism, I write extensively about how racist groups are using cloaked websites to further their goals to subvert civil rights and affirm white supremacy in covert ways. I also write about the range of political movements that use cloaked websites in a recent article, “Cloaked websites: propaganda, cyber-racism and epistemology in the digital era,” in the journal New Media & Society. While not the exclusive purview of the right-wing, it does seem that the right is amplifying their use of this technique." (http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2009/09/25/cloaked-sites-key-to-right-wing-propaganda/)


More Information

  1. http://www.jessiedanielsphd.com/cloaked.html