Despite the substantial amount of literature concerning adolescent bystanders of online hate
and cyberbullying, relatively little attention has been devoted to studying the same issue in …

Online talk about racism has been salient throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet while
such social media conversations reflect existing tensions in the offline world, the same …

Increasing attention has been placed to the societal downsides of social media, and
appropriately so. Less attention has been paid to the qualities to which social media should …

Severe abuse of social media has currently become a threat to social sustainability.
Although “responsible use of social media” has recently attracted academics' attention, few …

Solidarity among society is considered crucial to tackle the corona pandemic. With the crisis
evoking a high need for orientation, the information people obtain from different sources may …

We conduct a large scale data-driven analysis of the effects of online personal attacks on
social media user activity. First, we perform a thorough overview of the literature on the …

This study examined if and how Facebook user-generated comments about the flu vaccine
influenced psychological reactance in conjunction with pre-existing flu vaccine attitude …

Digital discrimination against sexual minorities is becoming prevalent. It increasingly
spreads through discriminatory content that mixes text and images (eg, memes), thus …

We investigate user engagement with politicians' migration discourses on social media. In
particular, we study the effects of message framing and support base attitudes on …

Hate speech can increase stereotyped thinking and social distancing in a society. However,
there is still a lack of variety in the social groups under study and research into possible …