A5041929211- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
2020-2023
Background: Anecdotal reports suggest a rise in anti-Asian racial attitudes and discrimination response to COVID-19. Racism can have significant social, economic, health impacts, but there has been little systematic investigation of increases prejudice. Methods: We utilized Twitter's Streaming Application Programming Interface (API) collect 3,377,295 U.S. race-related tweets from November 2019-June 2020. Sentiment analysis was performed using support vector machine (SVM), supervised learning...
This study examined whether killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor by current or former law enforcement officers in 2020 were followed shifts public sentiment toward Black people. Methods: Google searches for the names "Ahmaud Arbery," "Breonna Taylor," "George Floyd" obtained from Health Application Programming Interface (API). Using Twitter API, we collected a 1% random sample publicly available U.S. race-related tweets November 2019–September (N = 3,380,616)....
Background On March 16, 2021, a white man shot and killed eight victims, six of whom were Asian women at Atlanta-area spa massage parlors. The aims the study to: (1) qualitatively summarize themes tweets related to race, ethnicity, racism immediately following Atlanta shootings, (2) examine temporal trends in expressions hate speech solidarity before after shootings using new methodology for analysis. Methods A random 1% sample publicly available was collected from January April 2021....