TY - JOUR

T1 - Racism, Hate Speech, and Social Media

T2 - A Systematic Review and Critique

AU - Matamoros-Fernández, Ariadna

AU - Farkas, Johan

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Departing from Jessie Daniels’s 2013 review of scholarship on race and racism online, this article maps and discusses recent developments in the study of racism and hate speech in the subfield of social media research. Systematically examining 104 articles, we address three research questions: Which geographical contexts, platforms, and methods do researchers engage with in studies of racism and hate speech on social media? To what extent does scholarship draw on critical race perspectives to interrogate how systemic racism is (re)produced on social media? What are the primary methodological and ethical challenges of the field? The article finds a lack of geographical and platform diversity, an absence of researchers’ reflexive dialogue with their object of study, and little engagement with critical race perspectives to unpack racism on social media. There is a need for more thorough interrogations of how user practices and platform politics co-shape contemporary racisms.

AB - Departing from Jessie Daniels’s 2013 review of scholarship on race and racism online, this article maps and discusses recent developments in the study of racism and hate speech in the subfield of social media research. Systematically examining 104 articles, we address three research questions: Which geographical contexts, platforms, and methods do researchers engage with in studies of racism and hate speech on social media? To what extent does scholarship draw on critical race perspectives to interrogate how systemic racism is (re)produced on social media? What are the primary methodological and ethical challenges of the field? The article finds a lack of geographical and platform diversity, an absence of researchers’ reflexive dialogue with their object of study, and little engagement with critical race perspectives to unpack racism on social media. There is a need for more thorough interrogations of how user practices and platform politics co-shape contemporary racisms.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Racisme

KW - Hadtale

KW - Sociale medier

KW - Facebook

KW - Twitter

KW - Indholdsanalyse

UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1527476420982230

U2 - 10.1177/1527476420982230

DO - 10.1177/1527476420982230

M3 - Journal article

VL - 22

SP - 205

EP - 224

JO - Television and New Media

JF - Television and New Media

SN - 1527-4764

IS - 2

ER -