CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Jantó-Petneházy, István-Péter |
|---|---|
| Title | User-generated Hate Speech: Analysis, Lessons Learned and Policy Implications. The Case of Romania |
| Summary | This thesis is a descriptive case study about use of interactive features of online newspapers in Romania by the members of the audience i.e. ‘users’ to propagate hate speech: a phenomena labeled user generated hate-speech. To assess the proportions of the phenomena and to test the efficiency of the Romanian legislation and of the site usage policies in identifying and preventing user-generated hate speech a comparative analysis of the participatory features of five major Romanian news sites was performed, which served as basis for the collection of a purposive sample of 84 articles and the respective 6031 comments. The articles were grouped on target minorities and topics that occurred during a period of 13 months from March 2011 to April 2012. A definition of ‘hate’ was created based on the legislation and the encyclopedic definitions, and expanded into 23 hate-type categories, to provide a codebook for content analysis, which revealed that 37.99 percent of comments in the sample contained hate speech. |
| Supervisor | Coyer, Kate; Milan, Stefania |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/ianto-petnehazi_istvan-peter.pdf |
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