Honour, hate and violence in social media: Insights from India

Abstract

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.