| engl. Beschreibung/ Kurzkommentar |
"Hate speech" is, roughly speaking, a type of prejudiced and/or discriminatory verbal communication which expresses aggressiveness toward a group or class of people. The broader phenomenon of verbal aggression includes other forms of violent verbal (and non-verbal) communication such as, for instance, swearing, verbal abuse, contempt, ridicule, or threats. In this project, we will investigate acts of verbal aggression based on a corpus of posts to Gab, a controversial social media site which promotes "free speech, individual liberty and the free flow of information online" while tolerating aggressive verbal behavior. We will categorize acts of verbal aggression drawing on existing typologies and, if time allows, build classifiers to identify (and classify) verbal aggression in social discourse. Ultimately, we are interested in questions such as: What is "hate speech" exactly? What is "hate speech" already and what isn't yet? What do people "hate" and how do they express it? |
