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Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Giraud, E. H., Poole, E., De Quincey, E., & Richardson, J. E. (in press). Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis. The Sociological Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241305260

There has been a dramatic surge in uses of big data analytics and automated methods to detect and remove hate speech from social media, with these methods deployed both by platforms themselves and within academic research. At the same time, recent so... Read More about Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis.