Social Media and Hate

Studying the world of online hate speech and how it relates to actions and events in the offline world, Gunther Jikeli and his team use Twitter data in their research, mainly provided through IU’s Observatory on Social Media. Combing through millions of tweets, the research team uses keywords and hashtags to extract a representative sample of tweets, in this case, of posts about antisemitism and racism.

Gunther Jikeli, Erna B. Rosenfeld Professor, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Borns Jewish Studies Program, Associate Professor, Germanic Studies

Feb 2020

Ongoing