Systematically measuring dehumanisation of Palestinians in the media
Comparing the United Kingdom and Ireland
By A. Maurits van der Veen & STAIR lab students in lexica computational text analysis methods dehumanization Israel-Palestine
May 1, 2024
Abstract
Israel's war in Gaza has drawn heightened attention to dehumanization and, relatedly, dehumanizing rhetoric. <br><br> __The STAIR lab project for Spring 2024 was develop and apply a theoretically guided lexicon of dehumanizing words that permits a systematic analysis of dehumanizing rhetoric. By comparing the prevalence of dehumanizing words in the coverage of a particular group to the presence of that same language in a baseline category, we can identify the excess presence of dehumanizing language.__ <br><br> In this first paper applying the method, we analyze a corpus of British and Irish media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict since 2010. We find more dehumanization associated with Palestinians than with Israelis or people in general.
Date
May 1, 2024
Time
12:00 AM
Event
test 2
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- May 1, 2024
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