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Reema Rattan, Liam Armstrong, Carly Dober and Judith Peppard
Bystanders' dilemma: what to make of online videos of violence?
1 seconds Posted May 25, 2020 at 8:00 am.
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The start of the pandemic was marked by a disturbing rise of online videos of people fighting over toilet paper and racist attacks. But rarely, if ever, did they feature an intervention by a bystander. Reema Rattan asks Associate Professor of Philosophy at Deakin University Patrick Stokes whether it's enough to record such events rather than intervening and what, if anything, that says about how the online world has affected behaviour?