Online Hate Speech and Immigration Acceptance: A Study of Spanish Provinces

[EN] Online hate speech against migrants and refugees poses a grave challenge for coexistence and democracy. However, it also offers an opportunity to measure social acceptance towards this group. Using the Intergroup Contact and the Mediated Intergroup Contact Theory, and an already validated metho...

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Autores: Sánchez Holgado, Patricia, Jiménez Amores, Francisco Javier, Blanco Herrero, David
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
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Attitudes toward migration
Big data
Immigrants
Hate speech
Racism and xenophobia
63 Sociología
6308 Comunicaciones Sociales
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spelling Online Hate Speech and Immigration Acceptance: A Study of Spanish ProvincesSánchez Holgado, PatriciaJiménez Amores, Francisco JavierBlanco Herrero, DavidTwitterAttitudes toward migrationBig dataImmigrantsHate speechRacism and xenophobia63 Sociología6308 Comunicaciones Sociales[EN] Online hate speech against migrants and refugees poses a grave challenge for coexistence and democracy. However, it also offers an opportunity to measure social acceptance towards this group. Using the Intergroup Contact and the Mediated Intergroup Contact Theory, and an already validated methodology, this article seeks to validate whether the use of hate speech as a predictor of social acceptance is valid at a provincial level in Spain. Contrasting 97,710 tweets about migrants and refugees with secondary data from public Spanish institutions about acceptance of immigration and foreign population, no correlation was observed, rejecting the main hypotheses, and hinting that the application of this approach might not be recommended for smaller entities, such as provinces (NUTS 3). However, the study offers descriptive data about racist hate speech spread on Twitter in Spain, and also discusses the need for more studies using big data to increase knowledge about online hate speech against migrants and refugees.This research was funded by the project “Enhanced migration measures from a multidimensional perspective (HumMingBird)” funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, with reference number 870661. It has also been supported by the project “Preventing Hate Against Refugees and Migrants (PHARM)” funded by the European Union under the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014–2020) with reference number 875217 and by the Stop-Hate prototype, funded by the Fundación General de la Universidad de Salamanca as a competitive proof of concept within the TCUE plan, with reference PC-TCUE18-20_016.MDPI202420242022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/160893reponame:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamancainstname:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/870661info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/875217Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:gredos.usal.es:10366/1608932026-06-07T06:28:51Z
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spellingShingle Online Hate Speech and Immigration Acceptance: A Study of Spanish Provinces
Sánchez Holgado, Patricia
Twitter
Attitudes toward migration
Big data
Immigrants
Hate speech
Racism and xenophobia
63 Sociología
6308 Comunicaciones Sociales
title_short Online Hate Speech and Immigration Acceptance: A Study of Spanish Provinces
title_full Online Hate Speech and Immigration Acceptance: A Study of Spanish Provinces
title_fullStr Online Hate Speech and Immigration Acceptance: A Study of Spanish Provinces
title_full_unstemmed Online Hate Speech and Immigration Acceptance: A Study of Spanish Provinces
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Jiménez Amores, Francisco Javier
Blanco Herrero, David
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Jiménez Amores, Francisco Javier
Blanco Herrero, David
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Twitter
Attitudes toward migration
Big data
Immigrants
Hate speech
Racism and xenophobia
63 Sociología
6308 Comunicaciones Sociales
topic Twitter
Attitudes toward migration
Big data
Immigrants
Hate speech
Racism and xenophobia
63 Sociología
6308 Comunicaciones Sociales
description [EN] Online hate speech against migrants and refugees poses a grave challenge for coexistence and democracy. However, it also offers an opportunity to measure social acceptance towards this group. Using the Intergroup Contact and the Mediated Intergroup Contact Theory, and an already validated methodology, this article seeks to validate whether the use of hate speech as a predictor of social acceptance is valid at a provincial level in Spain. Contrasting 97,710 tweets about migrants and refugees with secondary data from public Spanish institutions about acceptance of immigration and foreign population, no correlation was observed, rejecting the main hypotheses, and hinting that the application of this approach might not be recommended for smaller entities, such as provinces (NUTS 3). However, the study offers descriptive data about racist hate speech spread on Twitter in Spain, and also discusses the need for more studies using big data to increase knowledge about online hate speech against migrants and refugees.
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