I ๐Ÿ‘ your Hate: Emojis as Infrastructural Platform Violence on Telegram

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dc.contributor.authorMorales, Esteban
dc.contributor.authorHodson, Jaigris
dc.contributor.authorGruzd, Anatoliy
dc.contributor.authorMai, Philip
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-26T21:06:19Z
dc.date.available2024-12-26T21:06:19Z
dc.date.issued2025-01-07
dc.description.abstractEmojis are a ubiquitous form of online expression. In this paper, we explore emojis as affordances that enact and sustain discursive violence via toxic content. We take a case study approach by focusing on Chismes Frescos Medellin (Fresh Gossip Medellin), a Colombian Telegram group with over 125,676 members. Relying on Communalytic, we collected 98,729 publicly accessible posts. Next, we subdivided the posts into 3,155 toxic and 95,574 non-toxic posts using Detoxify, a popular machine-learning classifier. We explored and compared the two subsets through statistical analysis and thematic analysis. Our findings show that emojisโ€”and specifically, emojis suggesting positive emotions such as ๐Ÿ‘ and ๐Ÿ˜โ€”are often used to accompany toxic speech in ways that indicate the approval and normalization of toxic speech. Overall, our study points to the need to pay closer attention to how affordances can enable symbolic forms of violence on digital platforms in unexpected ways.
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dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2025.284
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-8-8
dc.identifier.other7d593fe6-b1a0-4635-a9c5-8e8b7854064d
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/109124
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCommunication, Digital Conversation, and Media Technologies
dc.subjectemojis, platforms, telegram, toxic speech, violence
dc.titleI ๐Ÿ‘ your Hate: Emojis as Infrastructural Platform Violence on Telegram
dc.typeConference Paper
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