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    Racism and social media: A study in Indian context
    (Inderscience Publishers, 2019) Chetty, N.; Alathur, S.
    Racism is a kind of hatred behaviour, exhibited in written, verbal or physical form against the ethnicity or physical appearance of a group or an individual. Around the world, problematic behavioural incidents occur and in India, media often interpret it as towards people of colour or blacks. There was a lot of discussion about these incidents both online and offline, some groups consider that India is not free from racism and others view it is of misinformation processing. Therefore, there is a requirement of a system to evaluate and determine the possible scenarios towards racism in India. In this regard, using four different sets of keywords we created Twitter datasets. The data collected from social media are analysed to identify the polarity of content and the amount of racism using the software developed in R programming language. Contents are categorised in different polarities such as racist, non-racist and neutral. © © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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    Honour, hate and violence in social media: Insights from India
    (Inderscience Publishers, 2019) Chetty, N.; Alathur, S.
    Honour-based hate content is predominantly generated from family hate content and may affect humanity. In the Indian context, analysis of multiple resources such as literature, reported articles and social media sites pertinent to honour-based hate content is less. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to identify and understand the influencing factors and emotions of honour-based hate content. A review of literature, news articles on honour killing and the analysis of Twitter content are made to attain the purpose. In India, factor like marrying a person against family members' ideologies is observed as dominating among other factors of honour-based hate content. It has been also observed that emotions such as anger, fear, disgust and sadness are used to express hate. Possible impacts of honour-based hate content on family and society are discussed. The analysis of emotions about honour and hate content increases novelty of the article. © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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    Identity-Based Online Hate Content: Empirical Analysis
    (IGI Global, 2021) Chetty, N.; Alathur, S.
    The content which is expressed over the internet and its associated social media based on any of the protected characteristics like gender, religion, race, and disability is referred to as online hate content. This article aims to examine the user responses on online hate content and determine the predictors of online hate content. With an objective to identify the determinants of online hate content, the data has been collected from 716 internet users using a research instrument designed for the purpose. Both online and offline modes are used for collecting the data. A comprehensive analysis is made using partial least squares path modeling (PLS-PM) package from an open-source software R. The analysis of structural model revealed that the attitude and opinions towards different protected characteristics such as gender, religion, race, and disability are influencers of online hate content. Further, the analysis of measurement models revealed the role of measuring indicators. © © 2021, IGI Global.