Twitter, Gab, and Racism

Kalmar, Ivan; Stevens, Christopher; Worby, Nicholas

doi:10.1145/3217804.3217939

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“…Also, as a relatively new platform, on which there are not many studies, it is expected that a large part of literature on the platform attempts to provide big-picture, whole-of-platform insights, and act as first steps toward more in-depth studies. This has given more room to computational, big data approaches to the study of Gab, mainly stemming from quantitative and large-scale approaches, such as Zannettou et al (2018), Kalmar et al (2018), Zhou et al (2019), and Zeng and Schäfer (2021). More specifically, an important question addressed by such studies is comparing the nature of content and user behavior on Gab to that on platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan, or broad overviews of how different topics flow on the platform.…”

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“…Zhou et al (2019) argue that a small number of influential users direct the discourse on Gab and are dominated by social or political topics in the United States. In analyzing the Soros Myth case study across Twitter and Gab (based on posts from the United States), Kalmar et al (2018, p. 334) argue that users on Gab exhibit more anti-semiticism as compared to Twitter.…”

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Politicization and Radicalization of Discourses in the Alt-Tech Ecosystem: A Case Study on Gab Social

Dehghan

Nagappa

2022

Social Media + Society

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With the increasing popularity of some alternative social media platforms, the flow of information has to some extent shifted from the periphery to the core, where problematic discourses are produced, reproduced, and amplified in the alternative ecosystem, to later find their way into mainstream platforms. The non- or less-moderated nature of some alternative platforms provides a suitable space for politicization and radicalization of discourses. In this article, we use a case study of conversations about vaccination on Gab Social—an alternative platform often conceptualized as a far-right platform—to examine this radicalization process through a mixed-methods analysis of over 68,000 vaccination-related posts from before the COVID-19 pandemic until August 2021. The article shows that while antagonistic and conspiratorial thinking was an element of vaccination discourses on Gab even before the pandemic, such conversations became gradually politicized, and expanded far beyond the medical discourse and entered the domain of organizational politics.

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Politicization and Radicalization of Discourses in the Alt-Tech Ecosystem: A Case Study on Gab Social

Dehghan

Nagappa

2022

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“…One genealogy of the anti-Soros conspiracy myth traces its first full elaboration to the writings of the American neo-Nazi Lyndon LaRouche in 1996 (Kalmar et al, 2018). However, antisemitic insinuations against Soros and his organisations swirled widely in Eastern Europe even earlier, as Open Society institutions began work in Hungary in 1984, to significant regime opposition and resentment.…”

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“…What makes anti-Soros conspiracies useful for analysis of the contemporary antisemitic zeitgeist is their truly global character. Turkish president accused Soros of working to destroy and divide nations, Malaysian government of creating the Asian financial crisis, Macedonian ruling party of creating a national government impasse, Israeli prime minister of consorting with Iran against Israel, Romanian politician of bringing ‘financial evil’ to the country, Slovakian prime minister of financing anti-government protests, Hungarian prime minister of flooding the country with migrants, Trump of paying Central American refugees to seek asylum in the United States, Fox News of hijacking American democracy, and on and on (Kalmar et al, 2018; Tamkin, 2020b). Soros is an enemy of populist leaders everywhere, and they ascribe to him whatever national problems they find most acute.…”

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Antisemitism in the global populist international

Subotić

2021

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article explores the relationship between antisemitism and international politics, specifically the potent role that antisemitism plays in the development and maintenance of the global populist international. After briefly sketching the history of modern transnational antisemitism, I make two principal arguments for why antisemitism should be of more direct concern for the scholarship of International Relations. First, antisemitism serves as a powerful interpretive framework for contemporary far-right populist movements that are challenging the current international order. Second, antisemitism is shaping the formation of new international alliances. The strategic use of antisemitism in far-right populist foreign policy has changed, as evidenced in the increasing decoupling of attitudes towards Israel from antisemitism against diaspora Jews and a rise in pro-Israel policies of far-right antisemitic parties and movements. I conclude by reasserting that International Relations should understand antisemitism as one of the interpretive foundations of the global illiberal resurgence.

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“…For further details on hate speech, racism and anti-Semitism we refer to[1],[2],[3],[4]. Especially hate-speech detection is under constant research.…”

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The reception of holidays in social networks: A case study on Twitter

Hakius

2023

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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This study aims to push the boundaries of research in practical theology by applying methods from computational social science to identify the reception of holidays in online social networks in German tweets. Can we identify how people talk about holidays and especially Christian holidays on Twitter? As a subquestion, we try to find relevant information for interreligious topics, especially between Christians and Jews: Can we see how Christian holidays are related to or embedded in their Jewish counterparts? Is there an awareness of the Jewish roots of certain Christian holidays? While there is a growing awareness of these issues, there are still a number of unanswered questions. In addition to analysing and discussing these questions, we will also discuss methodological issues. First, we will discuss how computational methods fit in with common research in practical theology. Secondly, we will discuss the challenges of working with digital data beyond quantitative and qualitative research.

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Twitter, Gab, and Racism

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Politicization and Radicalization of Discourses in the Alt-Tech Ecosystem: A Case Study on Gab Social

Politicization and Radicalization of Discourses in the Alt-Tech Ecosystem: A Case Study on Gab Social

Antisemitism in the global populist international

The reception of holidays in social networks: A case study on Twitter

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