Erick Garcia
@garciaerick.bsky.social
Ph.D. Student in Communication at UC Santa Barbara
Media Effects | Intergroup Relations | Identity
I investigate how online hate spreads and explore strategies to counter/reduce its harmful effects.
UCI 🐜🍴 & CSULB 🦈 Alum
Media Effects | Intergroup Relations | Identity
I investigate how online hate spreads and explore strategies to counter/reduce its harmful effects.
UCI 🐜🍴 & CSULB 🦈 Alum
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June 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
P.S. Did you get the opportunity to connect or chat with one of our lab members at #ICA25?
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@len-s.bsky.social
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Ahmed Al-Rawi found some great qualitative data on whether experiences w/ racism could have a (+) impact on democracy. Amazing work bringing empirical support to quant-crit discussions.
🔑 Takeaways: The biggest theme was white supremacy. Politicians received higher OHS and self-censored more often.
🔑 Takeaways: The biggest theme was white supremacy. Politicians received higher OHS and self-censored more often.
June 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Ahmed Al-Rawi found some great qualitative data on whether experiences w/ racism could have a (+) impact on democracy. Amazing work bringing empirical support to quant-crit discussions.
🔑 Takeaways: The biggest theme was white supremacy. Politicians received higher OHS and self-censored more often.
🔑 Takeaways: The biggest theme was white supremacy. Politicians received higher OHS and self-censored more often.
Triantafyllos Gkaragkanis focused on online hate speech (OHS), affecting migrants in E. Europe.
They proposed digital literacy as a possible intervention to curtail anti-Migrant OHS.
🔑 Takeaways: Some countries have ⬇️ OHS, are more open to migration, but are ⬆️ in stereotypical media depictions.
They proposed digital literacy as a possible intervention to curtail anti-Migrant OHS.
🔑 Takeaways: Some countries have ⬇️ OHS, are more open to migration, but are ⬆️ in stereotypical media depictions.
June 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Triantafyllos Gkaragkanis focused on online hate speech (OHS), affecting migrants in E. Europe.
They proposed digital literacy as a possible intervention to curtail anti-Migrant OHS.
🔑 Takeaways: Some countries have ⬇️ OHS, are more open to migration, but are ⬆️ in stereotypical media depictions.
They proposed digital literacy as a possible intervention to curtail anti-Migrant OHS.
🔑 Takeaways: Some countries have ⬇️ OHS, are more open to migration, but are ⬆️ in stereotypical media depictions.
Kellen Sharp discussed some interesting points re: technoculture and digital diaspora. They utilized LLMs to study anti-Racist discourse on reddit.
I see lots of overlap with my own work on online hate speech & bystander intervention.
🔑 Takeaway: Solidarity is important for anti-Racist discourse!
I see lots of overlap with my own work on online hate speech & bystander intervention.
🔑 Takeaway: Solidarity is important for anti-Racist discourse!
June 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Kellen Sharp discussed some interesting points re: technoculture and digital diaspora. They utilized LLMs to study anti-Racist discourse on reddit.
I see lots of overlap with my own work on online hate speech & bystander intervention.
🔑 Takeaway: Solidarity is important for anti-Racist discourse!
I see lots of overlap with my own work on online hate speech & bystander intervention.
🔑 Takeaway: Solidarity is important for anti-Racist discourse!