Gender Differences in Abuse: The Case of Dutch Politicians on Twitter ...

Online abuse and threats towards politicians have become a significant concern in the Netherlands, like in many other countries across the world. This paper analyses gender differences in abuse received by Dutch politicians on Twitter, while taking into account the possible additional impact of ethnic minority status. All tweets directed at party leaders throughout the entire year of 2022 were collected. The effect of gender and ethnic minority status were estimated for six different linguistic measures of abuse, namely, toxicity, severe toxicity, identity attacks, profanity, insults, and thre... Mehr ...

Verfasser: van der Vegt, Isabelle
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Verlag/Hrsg.: arXiv
Schlagwörter: Computation and Language cs.CL / Social and Information Networks cs.SI / FOS: Computer and information sciences
Sprache: unknown
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28980409
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2306.10769

Online abuse and threats towards politicians have become a significant concern in the Netherlands, like in many other countries across the world. This paper analyses gender differences in abuse received by Dutch politicians on Twitter, while taking into account the possible additional impact of ethnic minority status. All tweets directed at party leaders throughout the entire year of 2022 were collected. The effect of gender and ethnic minority status were estimated for six different linguistic measures of abuse, namely, toxicity, severe toxicity, identity attacks, profanity, insults, and threats. Contrary to expectations, male politicians received higher levels of all forms of abuse, with the exception of threats, for which no significant gender difference was found. Significant interaction effects between gender and ethnic minority status were found for a number of abuse measures. In the case of severe toxicity, identity attacks, and profanity, female ethnic minority politicians were more severely impacted ... : pre-print ...