TY - GEN
T1 - Examining the social media antecedents of racial justice
T2 - 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2021
AU - Tacheva, Zhasmina
AU - Krsova, Leni
AU - Ivanov, Anton
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Despite an increasing body of research focusing on the use of social media posts for inferring various social phenomena such as influenza spread, political preferences, or information diffusion, less attention has been given to the influence such posts have on user attitudes. Rooted at the nexus of social capital, sociolinguistics, and the theory of critical consciousness, this study aims to explore the social media factors playing a role in racial justice attitude development. Using a matched sample of 5,365 Twitter users, we demonstrate the impact of user posts' topical diversity and bridging and bonding capital on the likelihood of engaging in antiracist discourse online in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder.
AB - Despite an increasing body of research focusing on the use of social media posts for inferring various social phenomena such as influenza spread, political preferences, or information diffusion, less attention has been given to the influence such posts have on user attitudes. Rooted at the nexus of social capital, sociolinguistics, and the theory of critical consciousness, this study aims to explore the social media factors playing a role in racial justice attitude development. Using a matched sample of 5,365 Twitter users, we demonstrate the impact of user posts' topical diversity and bridging and bonding capital on the likelihood of engaging in antiracist discourse online in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder.
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U2 - 10.24251/hicss.2021.320
DO - 10.24251/hicss.2021.320
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85108377448
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 2617
EP - 2626
BT - Proceedings of the 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2021
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 4 January 2021 through 8 January 2021
ER -