Hate Speech In Qualitative Research

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The article on hate speech by Karmen Erjavec and Melita Poler Kovačič (2012) relies on qualitative research methods to find out the beliefs and values regarding hate speech by researching the most used Slovenian news website comments using critical discourse analysis and conducting 20 in-depth interviews for the producers and analysing their thoughts and motives (Erjavec & Kovačič, 2012:904). The in-depth interviews were an accurate way of gaining information about hate speech and the reasons for using hate speech as the interviews that were conducted provided clear opinion based and personal experiences that hugely influenced the research (Erjavec & Kovačič, 2012:904). An example of this in the article is that it is stated that the main reason …show more content…

The interviews helped organise and create new themes regarding hate speech and this contributes to the approach of the author stating that nationalist and cultural issues shape hate speech according to Erjavec & Kovačič, (2012:916). This is evident in the article as categories were created based on the use of hate speech and what was discussed in the interviews and organised producers of hate speech were identified (Erjavec & Kovačič, 2012:912). The first group is known as the soldiers which are the people who are political activists but some are part of non-governmental organisations, the believers are seen as the people who follow their role models and protect their political interest and attack enemies, the next group are known as the players who use hate speech to humiliate others and it is seen as an online game and the last category is the watchdogs who use hate speech to bring awareness about social issues (Erjavec & Kovačič, 2012:909-912). This shows us the effectiveness of interviews as this information was gained from interviewing the producers of hate speech. Quantitative content analysis was used when identifying the categories oh hate speech at is an effective way to analyse data as it is an analytical process that interprets the data and makes inferences regarding the data (Schroder,

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