{"id":186706,"date":"2024-03-19T15:04:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T14:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/?p=186706"},"modified":"2024-04-22T13:15:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:15:28","slug":"hate-speech-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/2024\/03\/19\/hate-speech-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Is toxicity towards Italian politicians gendered? A multi-level analysis of hate speech on Twitter during election period"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This study addressed toxicity in tweets targeting Italian politicians during the propaganda campaign preceding Italian snap elections to surface differences in gender. A large sample of replies (163, 544 replies) from the 20 most popular tweets posted by 123 Italian women and 121 men politicians is considered; through network analysis, semantic analysis and natural language processing, trends in the way toxicity is crafted and distributed across communities are identified. Main takeaways are the following: women politicians are targeted more than man politicians, especially through threats or attacks to their identity; women politicians are target of attacks from the same groups of users more than man, suggesting the presence of a misogynistic group of haters; women haters like men haters tend to attack women more than man; \u201cbeing a woman\u201d is topicalized in toxic speech against women and associated to fearmongering words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/20240322_Is-toxicity-towards-Italian-politicians-gendered_v5.pdf\">FULL PAPER HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Di Elena Musi, Lorenzo Federico, Ayoub Mounim e Gianni Riotta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study addressed toxicity in tweets targeting Italian politicians during the propaganda campaign preceding Italian snap elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":186709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4566],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-repositories"],"acf":{"share_this_post_to_edmo_website":false,"type_of_post":false,"options_for_news_post":{"":""},"options_for_event_post":{"event_start_date":null,"event_end_date":null,"event_location":"","event_programme":""},"options_for_report_post":{"post_author":"","report_type":false,"report_pdf_link":""},"options_for_investigation_post":{"post_author":""},"affiliation":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186870,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186706\/revisions\/186870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idmo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}