Discriminatory expressions, the young and social networks: The effect of gender

David Dueñas-Cid; Paloma Pontón-Merino; Ángel Belzunegui-Eraso; Inma Pastor-Gosálbez

doi:10.3916/c46-2016-07

Discriminatory expressions, the young and social networks: The effect of gender

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In the framework of the «Project I: CUD» (Internet: Creatively Unveiling Discrimination), carried out in the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, Romania and Spain, we conducted a study into the expressions of discrimination used by young people on social network sites. To do so we designed a methodological strategy for detecting discriminatory content in 493 Facebook profiles and used this strategy to collect 363 examples for further analysis. Our aims were to compile information on the various types of discriminatory content and how they function online in order to create tools and strategies that can be used by trainers, teachers and families to combat discrimination on the Internet. Through this study we have detected patterns between young men and young women that reveal that there is a feminine and a masculine way of behaving on the Internet and that there are different ways of expressing discrimination on social networks sites. Men tend to be more direct in their posting and sharing of messages. Their messages, which are also more clearly discriminatory, focus more on discrimination towards ethnic groups and cultural minorities. Women, on the other hand, tend to use indirect (reactive) discriminatory strategies with a less obvious discriminatory component that mainly focuses on sociocultural status and physical appearance.

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David Dueñas-Cid
Paloma Pontón-Merino
Ángel Belzunegui-Eraso
Inma Pastor-Gosálbez

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Keywords

ATTITUDES, VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES, DISCRIMINATION, GENDER STUDIES, INTERNET, YOUTH, SOCIAL NETWORK SITES, SOCIOLOGY

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Category:: Articles
Type:: artykuły w czasopismach
Published in:: Comunicar Latin American Scientific Journal of communication and Education no. 24, pages 67 - 76,
ISSN: 1134-3478
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2016
Bibliographic description:: Dueñas-Cid D., Pontón-Merino P., Belzunegui-Eraso Á., Pastor-Gosálbez I.: Discriminatory expressions, the young and social networks: The effect of gender// Comunicar Latin American Scientific Journal of communication and Education -Vol. 24,iss. 46 (2016), s.67-76
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.3916/c46-2016-07
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