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AuthorYousri, Marzouki
AuthorBarach, Eliza
AuthorSrinivasan, Vidhushini
AuthorShaikh, Samira
AuthorFeldman, Laurie Beth
Available date2023-09-28T10:09:30Z
Publication Date2020-08
Publication NameHeliyon
Identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04311
CitationMarzouki, Y., Barach, E., Srinivasan, V., Shaikh, S., & Feldman, L. B. (2020). The dynamics of negative stereotypes as revealed by tweeting behavior in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. Heliyon, 6(8).
ISSN24058440
URIhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020311555
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/48078
AbstractWe describe the evolution of a stereotype as it emerged in tweets about the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack in Paris in early 2015. Our focus is on terms associated with the Muslim community and the Islamic world. The data (400k tweets) were collected via Twitter streaming API and consisted of tweets that contained at least one of 16 hashtags associated with the Charlie Hebdo attack (e.g., #JeSuisCharlie, #IAmCharlie, #ParisAttacks), collected between January 14th and February 9th. From these data, we generated pairwise co-occurrence frequencies between key words such as “Islam”, “Muslim(s)”, “Arab(s)”, and “The Prophet” and possible associates such as: “terrorism”, “terror”, “terrorist(s)”, “kill(ed)”, “free”, “freedom” and “love”. We use changes in frequency of co-occurring words to define ways in which acute negative and positive stereotypes towards Muslims and Islam arise and evolve in three phases during the period of interest. We identify a positively-valenced backlash in a subset of tweets associated with the “origins of Islam”. Results depict the emergence and transformation of implicit online stereotypes related to Islam from naturally occurring social media data and how pro-as well as anti-Islam online small-world networks evolve in response to a terrorist attack.
Languageen
PublisherElsevier
SubjectPsychology
Stereotypes
Tweeting behaviour
Social network analysis
Sentiment analysis
Islamophobia
TitleThe dynamics of negative stereotypes as revealed by tweeting behavior in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack
TypeArticle
Issue Number8
Volume Number6
Open Access user License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
ESSN2405-8440
dc.accessType Open Access


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