Rage in the Machine
Activation of Racist Content in Social Media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2955239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sebastián Vallejo Vera (0000-0002-5848-7400, Tecnológico de Monterrey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 74-100 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/lap.2022.25 |
| OpenAlex | W4327597834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Racism in social media is ubiquitous, persisting online in ways unique to the internet while also reverberating from the world offline. When will racist frames activate in social media networks? This article argues that social media users engage with racist content when they perceive a threat to the in-group status, selecting frames that serve as markers to separate the in-group identity from the out-group identity. Racialized frames serve as these markers, and the perceived threats to the in-group status make racist content cognitively congruent. Evidence of this behavior is provided by examining Twitter activity during the indígena protests in Ecuador in October 2019. A novel, multistep machine-learning process detects racist tweets, and an interrupted time series analysis shows how events that can be perceived as threats to the in-group activate racist content in some social media communities
Art · Collective identity · Internet privacy · Political science · Racism · Social group · Social identity theory · Social media · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |