There is also a new-ish research institute, "Data & Society", that looks
promising, " focused on the social and cultural issues arising from
data-centric technological development".
"Online Harassment, Digital Abuse, and Cyberstalking in America"
“New report shows that 4% of U.S. internet users have been a victim of
'revenge porn'”
Thanks for the updates. I'm pinging Patrick
Earley, who is tracking
this kind of research for WMF, in case he has yet to see this info.
Pine
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Neotarf <neotarf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society
at Harvard University
has
four new publications online.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/node/99716
“Understanding Harmful Speech Online: Research Note” is a summary of
current
research, with several pages of links at the end.
One phrase that stood
out: "Munger also recently conducted an experiment among groups of users
on
Twitter considered harassers on the platform and
found that counter
speech
using automated bots can impact and reduce
instances of racist speech if
'that subjects… were sanctioned by a high-follower white male'.”
Two papers are from the Global South. "Grassroots Perspectives on Hate
Speech, Race, & Inequality in Brazil & Colombia" has an entire section on
"counter-speech", or counter narratives, a term that seems to be gaining
some currency. "Preliminary Findings on Online Hate Speech and the Law
in
India" talks about inciting sectarian
violence with fake news.
Finally, for an understanding of the definitions of hate speech, forget
the
Wikipedia article, which embarrassingly uses the
words "politically
correct"
and "Newspeak" in the introductory
paragraphs, sourced to opinion pieces
by
two bloggers who did not even use the words. The
paper “Defining Hate
Speech” gives a thought-provoking overview of various approaches to
identifying hate speech in a text. One such framework developed by
Parekh
noted “three essential features” of hate speech:
(1) “it is directed
against
a specified or easily identifiable individual or,
more commonly, a group
of
individuals based on an arbitrary or normatively
irrelevant feature;” (2)
the speech “stigmatizes the target group by implicitly or explicitly
ascribing to it qualities widely regarded as undesirable;” and (3)
“because
of its negative qualities, the target group is
viewed as an undesirable
presence and a legitimate object of hostility.” Also this, food for
thought
about criteria for communication on
Wikipedia's talk pages: "...Ward’s
definition, noting that a speaker should be seen as employing hate
speech if
'their attacks are so virulent that an
observer would have great
difficulty
separating the message delivered from the attack
against the victim'.”
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