Erick Garcia
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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
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June 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
June 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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.
June 15, 2025 at 3:18 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.
June 15, 2025 at 3:09 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!
June 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM