CYBERHATE ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE AFTERMATH OF WOOLWICH: A CASE STUDY IN COMPUTATIONAL CRIMINOLOGY AND BIG DATA.
In: British Journal of Criminology, Jg. 56 (2016-03-01), Heft 2, S. 211-238
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This paper presents the first criminological analysis of an online social reaction to a crime event of national significance, in particular the detection and propagation of cyberhate on social media following a terrorist attack. We take the Woolwich, London terrorist attack in 2013 as our event of interest and draw on Cohen's process of warning, impact, inventory and reaction to delineate a sequence of incidents that come to constitute a series of deviant responses following the attack. This paper adds to contemporary debates in criminology and the study of hate crime in three ways: (1) it provides the first analysis of the escalation, duration, diffusion and de-escalation of cyberhate in social media following a terrorist event; (2) it applies Cohen's work on action, reaction and amplification and the role of the traditional media to the online context and (3) it introduces and provides a case study in 'computational criminology'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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CYBERHATE ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE AFTERMATH OF WOOLWICH: A CASE STUDY IN COMPUTATIONAL CRIMINOLOGY AND BIG DATA.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | WILLIAMS, MATTHEW L. ; BURNAP, PETE |
Zeitschrift: | British Journal of Criminology, Jg. 56 (2016-03-01), Heft 2, S. 211-238 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2016 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0007-0955 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/azv059 |
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