Studying Hate Crime with the Internet: What Makes Racists Advocate Racial Violence?

By Jack Glaser, Jaya Dixit, Donald P. Green. 2002

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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LGBT Identity, Violence, and Social Justice: The Psychological Is Political (2003, background): “But on the other hand it is reported that expression of hatred toward minority groups is more serious within the online community than it is with the “off-line” community ( Glaser, Dixit, & Green, 2002 ).”
Race and racism in Internet Studies: A review and critique (2013, background): “…takes a different approach and looks at racially regressive political groups such as neo-Nazis and the KKK (Adams and Roscigno, 2005; Atton, 2006; Back, 2002; Bostdorff, 2004; Burris et al., 2000; Campbell, 2006; Glaser et al., 2002; Lee and Leets, 2002; Leets, 2001; Tateo, 2005; Zickmund, 1997).”
Mining communities and their relationships in blogs: A study of online hate groups (2007, background): “Glaser et al. (2002) suggest that racists often express their views more freely on the Internet.”
A Call to Educate, Participate, Invoke and Indict: Understanding the Communication of Online Hate Groups (2010, background): “Previous studies make valuable contributions to our understanding of specific types of hate groups (e.g., Bostdorff, 2002; Glaser et al., 2002; Lee & Leets, 2002), but as Bostdorff (2002) admits, the study of a discreet category of groups ‘‘is but a preliminary step toward a greater understanding of”
The internet as psychological laboratory. (2006, background): “Another novel approach involved posting different “problems” on hate-group discussion boards to examine factors that lead to advocating violence against racial minorities (Glaser et al. 2002).”
A review of research ethics in internet-based research (2012, background): “Madge (2007) cites the example of glaser et al. (2002) who collected data from chat rooms associated with white racist groups (the research concerned violence against ethnic groups).”
Adolescence, race, and ethnicity on the Internet: A comparison of discourse in monitored vs. unmonitored chat rooms (2004, background): “Whereas when race is discussed or performed in adult online forums, it is often reported to be negative (Burkhalter, 1999; Nakamura, 2002; Kang, 2000; Glaser et al., 2002), adolescent discussions, for the most part, were positive in nature.”
‘STORMFRONT IS LIKE A SECOND HOME TO ME’ (2008, background): “Ironically however, the only study we know of in which participants on rightwing extremist web forums are interviewed (Glaser et al. 2002) does not concern their online experiences; the Internet is merely used for contacting right-wing extremists to study their ideas about interracial violence.”
Psychological research online: report of Board of Scientific Affairs' Advisory Group on the Conduct of Research on the Internet. (2004, background): “Internet chat rooms and bulletin boards provide a rich sample of human behavior that can be mined for studies of communication (Galegher, Sproull, & Kiesler, 1998), prejudice ( Glaser, Dixit, & Green, 2002 ), organizational behavior (Orlikowski, 2000), or diffusion of innovation (Kraut, Rice, Cool, ”
Sentiment analysis in multiple languages: Feature selection for opinion classification in Web forums (2008, background): “Extremist groups often use the Internet to promote hatred and violence [Glaser et al. 2002].”