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Discrimination

Online

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Are adolescents discriminated against more due to ethnic background, age, race, gender, etc more online than offline?

Studies

Another study found that reports of direct racial discrimination increased across the three time periods. Minority youth perceived an average of less than one incident at the first time period, one incident the second year, and slightly more than one incident at the third.

Using a sample of 340 African-American, Latino, Asian and biracial adolescents; online survey data from study one revealed the table below.

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Context of the Studies

The contexts for online discrimination were examined. The most frequent contexts for these experiences were social networking sites like Facebook and text messaging. Because researchers noted shifts in the popularity of online contexts among participants in interview data, specific sites (e.g., Tumblr, Twitter and YouTube) were assessed for the third time point. Twenty-one percent of minority youth indicated that they had experienced online discrimination on Twitter and YouTube.

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Reports on experiences of online descrimintaion

Participants of the studies reported six primary types of experiences: 1. Racial labels. 2. Statements that were untrue, stereotyping and implicitly racist statements. 3. Racist jokes. 4. Symbols of hate, such as the Confederate flag. 5. Threats of physical harm or death. 6. Graphic representations/actual images of dead black bodies.

Implication of online discrimination towards adolescense's mental health

This online descirmination contributes to the racial discrimination that adolescents are potentially exposed to, but average internet users may also be more likely to engage in discriminatory behaviors online . Given the perception of privacy online, perpetrators can feel as though they are in a large crowd of others with a low likelihood of identification, which arguably leads to less self-monitoring when expressing beliefs.

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How do we prevent discrimination online?

While we may not be able to completely get rid of discrimination online, we can do the list bellow to lessen the discrimination online: 1. Educate yourselve 2. Raise awareness 3. Don’t discriminate against others online 4. Report the person 5. Remind them 6. Don’t respond to people discriminating against you

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