Project Purpose
The main purpose of the project was to discuss opportunities and challenges for measuring the prevalence of hate speech with various methodological approaches.
Project Approach
We discussed in the use of survey methods and content analysis for studying hate speech, and examine in particular the possibilities for using automatic analysis of Big data to analyse the prevalence of hate speech.
In addition, the project resulted in a proposal for a research design to empirically study the prevalence of hate speech.
Publications
Nadim, Marjan; Fladmoe, Audun & Enjolras, Bernard (2018). Måling av omfang av hatefulle ytringer: Metodiske muligheter og utfordringer. Report - Institute for Social Research. 2018:1.
See also:
- The project Literature review of research on hate speech
- The project Hate speech and hate crime on the Internet