The Language of Hate on Social Media: An Examination of Themes, Posts, and Comments on Reddit

• In Event: Extremism, Hate, and Violence in Political Communication

Brief Overview

This paper looks at the language of hate speech across a number of different social media communities on the website Reddit and uses various tools to explore relationships between language and events.

Authors

• Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice, Michigan State University

• Ian Hawkins, University of Michigan