Evaluating associations between area-level Twitter-expressed negative racial sentiment, hate crimes, and residents' racial prejudice in the United States

Background: The objective of the current study is to investigate whether an area-level measure of racial sentiment derived from Twitter data is associated with state-level hate crimes and existing measures of racial prejudice at the individual-level. Methods: We collected 30,977,757 tweets from June...

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Main Authors: Thu T. Nguyen, Dina Huang, Eli K. Michaels, M. Maria Glymour, Amani M. Allen, Quynh C. Nguyen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-03-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827321000252