Won't you be my neighbor? : reactions to online racial discrimination disclosures across U.S. neighborhoods and the promise of empathy
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- While American neighborhoods remain largely segregated by race, they offer valuable opportunities for people of different racial identities to interact, learn from, and support each other. This potential is amplified by technology, specifically neighborhood based social media platforms. However, the convergence of diverse individuals sometimes gives rise to conflicts and discrimination. In the face of discrimination, individuals may turn to the community to share their experiences. As listening and learning about racialized experiences often serves as the first step towards thriving of diverse communities, in the present research we ask whether individuals who choose to share their encounters with racial discrimination in their neighborhood receive the same level of empathetic support as those sharing negative race-neutral experiences. With access to millions of social media posts (Chapter 2), we learn that neighborhood racial discrimination disclosures face heightened censorship by both algorithms (Chapter 3) and humans (Chapter 4), compared to negative race-neutral disclosures. This disparate censorship against racial discrimination disclosures negatively impacts even third-party viewers, who feel more alienated from the community and the hosting platform (Chapter 5). Further, we propose an empathy intervention as a mitigation strategy (Chapter 6). These studies illuminate the emerging landscape of digital discrimination, highlighting how the actions of everyday people impact support and alienation in communities. These insights hold significance as communities navigate the complexities of constructive integration in an increasingly diverse society.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lee, Cinoo |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Eberhardt, Jennifer |
| Thesis advisor | Eberhardt, Jennifer |
| Thesis advisor | Markus, Hazel |
| Thesis advisor | Steele, Claude |
| Degree committee member | Markus, Hazel |
| Degree committee member | Steele, Claude |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Psychology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Cinoo Lee. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Psychology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/zm489zj0381 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Cinoo Lee
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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