Digital hatred: The rhetoric of Internet hate groups and militants*

• In Event: Parties, Media, and Political Communication in Comparative Perspective

Brief Overview

We develop an intelligent webscraping tool to evaluate “uncivil” coordination online using an algorithm of passive (hate) to active or mobilizing (annihilate) speech and map the results against hate crimes.

Authors

• Nicholas Kade Edwards, University of North Alabama

• Leah Michelle Graham, University of North Alabama

• Bryson Sirbaugh