Hine, G;
Onaolapo, J;
De Cristofaro, E;
Kourtellis, N;
Leontiadis, I;
Samaras, R;
Stringhini, G;
(2017)
Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effects on the Web.
In: Gonzalez-Bailon, S and Marwick, A and Mason, W, (eds.)
Proceedings of the Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017).
(pp. pp. 92-101).
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): Montreal, Canada.
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Abstract
The discussion-board site 4chan has been part of the Internet's dark underbelly since its inception, and recent political events have put it increasingly in the spotlight. In particular, /pol/, the “Politically Incorrect'” board, has been a central figure in the outlandish 2016 US election season, as it has often been linked to the alt-right movement and its rhetoric of hate and racism. However, 4chan remains relatively unstudied by the scientific community: little is known about its user base, the content it generates, and how it affects other parts of the Web. In this paper, we start addressing this gap by analyzing /pol/ along several axes, using a dataset of over 8M posts we collected over two and a half months. First, we perform a general characterization, showing that /pol/ users are well distributed around the world and that 4chan's unique features encourage fresh discussions. We also analyze content, finding, for instance, that YouTube links and hate speech are predominant on /pol/. Overall, our analysis not only provides the first measurement study of /pol/, but also insight into online harassment and hate speech trends in social media.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Kek, Cucks, and God Emperor Trump: A Measurement Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and its Effects on the Web |
| Event: | Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017) |
| Location: | Montral, Canada |
| Dates: | 16 May 2017 - 18 May 2017 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM17/paper... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2017 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1544396 |
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