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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-03-01
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Series: | SSM: Population Health |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827321000252 |