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Desmond Upton Patton1, Owen Rambow1, Jonathan Auerbach1
1Columbia School of Social Work, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027-5927 USA.
Abstract:
Recent studies suggest social media shapes the transmission of firearm violence in high-poverty, urban neighborhoods. However, the exact pathways by which content on social media becomes threatening has not been studied. We consider a dataset of tweets by gang-involved Chicago youth that are coded for expressions of aggression and/or loss. Using a permutation test and mixed-effects log linear regression, we find that aggression and loss tweets do not occur randomly, and furthermore that in a 2-day window after loss expressions we find an increase in aggressive tweets. We discuss implications for intervention.
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