{"id":12984,"date":"2014-02-14T12:56:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T12:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12984"},"modified":"2014-02-14T12:56:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T12:56:01","slug":"most-popular-twitter-insult-is-white-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=12984","title":{"rendered":"Most popular Twitter insult is ‘white boy’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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10,000 racist tweets are sent ever day, a major new study into racism on social networks has discovered.
\nResearch by the think tank Demos found the biggest insult was ‘white boy’.<\/p>\n

Researchers analysed 126,975 English-language tweets from across the globe over a 9-day period in the biggest ever study of Twitter racism.<\/p>\n

The Demos researchers claim 10,000 racist slurs are tweeted every day.<\/p>\n

The study found that slurs were employed in six distinct ways: negative stereotype; casual use of slurs; targeted abuse; appropriated; non-derogatory; and offline action\/ideologically driven.<\/p>\n

The most common type of slurs were actually meant in a non-offensive, non-abusive manner, or to express in-group solidarity.
\nThis group represented between 47.5-70 percent of tweets, depending on whether human or computer analysis were employed.<\/p>\n

Researchers revealed the most common racial slurs used on the micro-blogging site included \u2018whitey\u2019 and \u2018pikey\u2019.<\/p>\n

However, as many as 70% of tweets using such language were deemed to be using slurs in non-derogatory fashion.
\n‘This sparks the debate about the extent to which Twitter truly is a platform for racism and abusive language,’ the report claims.<\/p>\n

Jamie Bartlett, Director of CASM at Demos and author of the report, said: ‘Twitter provides us with a remarkable window into how people talk, argue, debate, and discuss issues of the day.<\/p>\n

‘While there are a lot of racial slurs being used on Twitter, the overwhelming majority of them are not used in an obviously prejudicial or hateful way.<\/p>\n

Of the 126,975 English-language tweets from across the globe, further analysis suggests only 1% of tweets used a racial slur in an ideological context within a political statement or in a call to action in the real world.<\/p>\n

Analysis found that as few as 500 tweets a day were directed at an individual and appeared on first sight to be abusive.<\/p>\n

Source: Daily Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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