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Encountering racist and sexist content online / : Racisme et le sexisme en ligne

18 Jun 2014

After Montreal Canadiens P.K. Subban scored the winning goal in a double-overtime playoff game against the Boston Bruins on May 1, 2014, a number of Boston fans posted racial slurs against him on Twitter. Although both the Canadiens and the Bruins management condemned the attacks, the posts remind us that discrimination continues to dog our online interactions and that networked technologies provide a potentially global platform for all sorts of communications, including hateful ones. Canadian policymakers have been concerned about the possibility that the Internet might expose Canadian youth to websites created by hate mongers since it wired Canada's schools in 1999. However, the Bruins incident reminds us that, with the advent of social media, offensive content has grown to encompass exposure to - and possibly participation in - discriminatory communications across a broad range of platforms. In 2013, MediaSmarts conducted a national survey - Young Canadians in a Wired World - of 5,436 Canadian students, grades 4 through 11, in every province and territory, in order to gain a better understanding of young people's experiences and perceptions of networked media. In it, we asked students in grades 7 through 11 how often they come across racist or sexist content online and how they think people should respond to such content. This report summarizes our findings. It is part of a series of reports drawing on the rich data we collected in response to our survey.
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Authors

Steeves, Valerie

Pages
25
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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