RT Article
T1 Cyberhate on Social Media in the aftermath of Woolwich: a Case Study in Computational Criminology and Big Data
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 56
IS 2
SP 211
OP 238
A1 Williams, Matthew L. 1976-
A1 Burnap, Pete
A2 Burnap, Pete
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1694237605
AB This paper presents the first criminological analysis of an online social reaction to a crime event of national significance, in particular the detection and propagation of cyberhate on social media following a terrorist attack. We take the Woolwich, London terrorist attack in 2013 as our event of interest and draw on Cohen’s process of warning, impact, inventory and reaction to delineate a sequence of incidents that come to constitute a series of deviant responses following the attack. This paper adds to contemporary debates in criminology and the study of hate crime in three ways: (1) it provides the first analysis of the escalation, duration, diffusion and de-escalation of cyberhate in social media following a terrorist event; (2) it applies Cohen’s work on action, reaction and amplification and the role of the traditional media to the online context and (3) it introduces and provides a case study in ‘computational criminology’.
K1 Cyberhate
K1 Hate crime
K1 Social media
K1 Computational criminology
K1 Big data
DO 10.1093/bjc/azv059