Understanding Inciting Speech as New Malice
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 22106963 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Vaibhav Garg (0000-0001-8264-7489, Virginia Tech), Ganning Xu (0009-0002-1780-549X, Georgia Institute of Technology), Munindar P Singh (0000-0003-3599-3893, North Carolina State University) |
| Ano | 2025 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 947-956 |
| Data de publicação | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 2329-924X • E-ISSN: 2373-7476 |
| Editora | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1109/tcss.2024.3504357 |
| OpenAlex | W4406856939 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 39 |
Inciting speech seeks to instill hostility or anger in readers or motivate them to take action against a target group. Whereas hate speech in social media has garnered much attention, inciting speech has not been well studied in domains such as religion. We address two aspects of religious incitement: 1) what rhetorical strategies are used in it?; and 2) do the same strategies apply across disparate social contexts and targets? We identify inciting speech against Muslims but demonstrate the generality of the construct vis à vis other targets. We adopt existing datasets of Islamophobic WhatsApp posts and hateful and offensive posts (Twitter and Gab) against other targets. Our methods include: 1) qualitative analysis revealing rhetorical strategies; and 2) an iterative process to label the data, yielding a tool to detect incitement. Incitement applies three rhetorical strategies focused, respectively, on the target group's identity, their imputed misdeeds, and an exhortation to act against them. These strategies carry distinct textual signatures. Our tool (with additional verification) reveals that inciting sentences appear in non-Islamophobic posts and in other contexts (e.g., posts against certain gender identities), indicating the generality of incitement as a concept. Incitement reflects a wide swath of malicious speech omitted from traditional analyses. Understanding and identifying incitement can facilitate online moderation and thus concomitantly reduce harm in real life
Malice · Political science · Speech recognition · Computer Science · Law · Law in Society and Culture
NewsSlant
Hate Speech and Its Harms
A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales
Individual Differences in Responses to Provocation and Frequent Victimization by Peers
Detecting weak and strong Islamophobic hate speech on social media
Theorizing Provocation Narratives as Communication Strategies
Thematic Analysis
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |