Thesis
Tweeting Islamophobia
- Alternative title:
- Islamophobic hate speech amongst followers of UK political parties on Twitter
- Abstract:
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The great promise of social media platforms such as Twitter is to connect people separated across time and space. This has had far-ranging consequences for politics by changing discursive, participative and organisational practices. However, despite much early techno-optimism about platforms like Twitter, concerns are growing that they enable harmful, hateful and divisive behaviours. In this thesis, I focus on one of the most concerning and harmful behaviours on Twitter and in politics mor...
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Funding
Economic & Social Research Council
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The Alan Turing Institute
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Deposit date:
- 2019-08-24
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- Copyright holder:
- Vidgen, B
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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