Understanding anti---immigrant hate speech on social media

这项研究旨在提高对在线反移民仇恨言论作为种族主义形式的社会学理解。近年来，网上种族主义语言激增，2014年的一项研究发现，仅在Twitter上就有1万个英语种族主义和种族诽谤术语的使用(Bartlett等人，2014年)。这一现象缺乏理论性(Daniels，2012：705)，由于不知道是什么驱动了网络种族主义，政府正在为其政策含义而苦苦挣扎。这项研究符合曼彻斯特对有影响力的、理论上知情的实证研究的承诺，因为它旨在提供关于网上种族主义传播的政策建议。它还将有助于社会学系和CODE对种族主义的原因和影响的领先研究。

This study aims to improve sociological understandings of online anti-immigrant hate speech as a form of racism. Recent years have seen a proliferation of racist language online, with a 2014 study finding 10,000 uses of English racist and ethnic slur terms daily on Twitter alone (Bartlett et al., 2014). This phenomenon is undertheorised (Daniels, 2012: 705), and with no knowledge of what drives online racism, governments struggle with its policy implications. This study fits with Manchester's commitment to impactful, theoretically informed, empirical research, as it aims to provide policy recommendations regarding the spread of racism online. It will also contribute to the Department of Sociology and CoDE's leading research on the causes and effects of racism.