Dynamics of Cyber Hate in Social Media : A Comparative Analysis of Anti-Muslim Movements in the Czech Republic and Germany

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.cybercrimejournal.com/Hanzelka&Schmidtvol11issue1IJCC2017.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.cybercrimejournal.com/Hanzelka&Schmidtvol11issue1IJCC2017.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.495778" target="_blank" >10.5281/zenodo.495778</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Dynamics of Cyber Hate in Social Media : A Comparative Analysis of Anti-Muslim Movements in the Czech Republic and Germany

Original language description

In this paper, we address the issue of cyber hate in two selected cases of social movements from Central Europe, namely Pegida from Germany and Initiatives against Islam from the Czech Republic. Based on the Intergroup Contact Theory and previous research of cyber hate, we focus on the users of pages related to the above-mentioned movements on Facebook. For this purpose we use samples of user comments which are presented on the Facebook pages of the above-mentioned movements and we identify and measure the percentage of hateful comments, their targeting and trigger events by using a qualitative coding method. The research results show that in cyberspace, hate comments are more frequent in the case of the Czech Initiative against Islam. The targeting of these comments is very similar in both countries and we are able to classify immigrants and refugees, Muslims in general, governments in both countries, political elites (EU, USA), and people who are in favour of immigrants or refugees (most often from NGOs) as individual targets. Trigger events are linked across both countries and the largest cyber hate instigators are incidents in which refugees and immigrants are presented as perpetrators, as well as issues of asylum policy in general.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Cyber Criminology

ISSN

0974-2891

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

IN - INDIA

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

143-160

UT code for WoS article

000412138500010

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85020106360