[CivicAccess-discuss] Geography of Hate

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html

> The Geography of Hate is part of a larger project by Dr. Monica Stephens<http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/>of Humboldt State University (HSU) identifying the geographic origins of
> online hate speech. Undergraduate students Amelia Egle, Matthew Eiben and
> Miles Ross, worked to produce the data and this map as part of Dr.
> Stephens' Advanced Cartography course at Humboldt State University.
>
> The data behind this map is based on every geocoded tweet in the United
> States from June 2012 - April 2013 containing one of the 'hate words'. This
> equated to over 150,000 tweets and was drawn from the DOLLY project based
> at the University of Kentucky. Because algorithmic sentiment analysis would
> automatically classify any tweet containing 'hate words' as "negative,"
> this project relied upon the HSU students to read the entirety of tweet and
> classify it as positive, neutral or negative based on a predefined rubric.
> Only those tweets that were identified by human readers as negative were
> used in this analysis.
>
Via Catherine Roy on Facebook
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Tracey P. Lauriault
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