Cyberhate on Social Media in the aftermath of Woolwich: a Case Study in Computational Criminology and Big Data

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 i...

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Main Author: Williams, Matthew L. (Author)
Contributors: Burnap, Pete
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2016, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 211-238
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Keywords:
Big data
Computational criminology
Cyberhate
Hate crime
Social media