sentences:  E-contact involves an ingroup member interacting with an outgroup member over the Internet and includes text-based, video-based or a mixture of both text- and video-based online interactions.Electronic contact has been empirically shown to reduce inter-religious prejudice between Christian and Muslim students in Australia in both the short and long term, as well between Catholic and Protestant students in Northern Ireland.In the context of sexual prejudice, research also has shown that interacting online with a member of the outgroup is a particularly useful particularly useful as a prejudice-reduction strategy among individuals who typically report ideologically intolerant beliefs.