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Headline seems a bit misleading. "Half of online abuse" seems to suggest that this study is representative of the internet as a whole instead of just twitter. W
by vectorpush 10y ago
Headline seems a bit misleading. "Half of online abuse" seems to suggest that this study is representative of the internet as a whole instead of just twitter. While the findings are still worthwhile, I think we'd see different results if the study could have included sites like 4chan, reddit, tumblr or even facebook. Of course, there are practical challenges to getting accurate demographic information on those platforms, but I suspect that fact also factors into the nature of abuse that persists on those sites.
- 7Z7 10y agoAdditionally it wasn't looking at broad online abuse, it was looking specifically at (according to the Guardian reporting of this study) the uses of the word "slut" and "whore" in terms of online misogyny.
- fnovd 10y agoIt's like looking at mentions of the n-word and coming to the conclusion that NWA is the more racist than the KKK.