Map: “Geography of Hate”
1 week ago
Do you send out offensive tweets?
In the microblogging network Twitter, everyone’s got an opinion. But what happens when a 140 character tweet turns racist or offensive? Well, turns out someone mapped it.
Floating Sheep, a group of geography academics, created “Geography of Hate,” which maps racist, homophobic and anti-disability tweets across the country.
Students at Humboldt State University manually read and coded tweets sent out in North America from June 2012 and April 2013 and determined if specific words were used in an a positive, negative or neutral connotation. Floating Sheep used their collected data to determine the ratio of hateful tweets to overall tweets in each county.
The majority of the hateful tweets seem to be coming out of rural parts of the U.S. and small towns, while more populous areas like Los Angeles have less hate tweets.
Floating Sheep categorized the tweets into three main groups including homophobic, racist and disability, under which contain subcategories for the slurs. Check out more of their findings and navigate through the detailed map here.
Do you send tweets containing offensive terms? What do you think of the Geography of Hate's findings?
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Photo Credit: Humboldt State University
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