Abstract
The current study is an attempt to address some of the issues surrounding social media use with more emphasis on their role in reinforcing human relationships and spreading hatred speech. For the sake of presenting a comprehensive overview of the issue, a blend of quantitative and qualitative methodologies was implemented in the present study to analyse presence and incidence of hate speech and friendly relationship discourse in social media. To embark on such endeavour, a mixed- method, encompassing both a questionnaire and corpus analysis, is adopted. The targeted sample of the questionnaire’s addressees consists of social media users (n=100) from different categories of people. The second tool comprises a set of messages, comments and posts that are collected from different social media, especially Facebook. The findings revealed that hate speech, based on ethnicity, race, tribe, skin color, religion and physical appearance, is becoming prevalent among social media users, surpassing the spread of human relationships.
Highlights
People can establish friendly relationships and verbally express/disclose what is inside their minds and hearts
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in its Article 10 prescribes that this freedom can be limited when it is: prescribed by law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary
In Jun 27th, 2021, JS Kabylie and Coton Sport played a semi-final match of CAF Confederation Cup, where players presented the kabylie flag and Amazigh language in their uniforms which created a dispute in Facebook posts and comments as demonstrated in the previous picture, where offenders used taboo language, inciting violence claiming that the JS Kabylie does not represent the Algerians and that Kabyles do not have any identity or origins; as an example we can take the following statements
Summary
Since the beginning of mankind and up till the present days, language has been considered as an essential means of communication amongst human beings. Human relationships are more likely to prosper through this worldwide online communication, no matter the language shared is Thanks to these technological means and media of communication, millions of people have established relations with one another without even physical meeting. Antipathetic speech, as a scornful characteristic of human behaviour, has with no doubt existed for a long time since the era of Adam and Eve, this study would more likely sound significant as it attempts to pursue the existence of such normal human communicative acts not in genuine social settings but rather in virtual discursive contexts Within this sociolinguistic online context, the current study is meant to explore both positive and negative uses of these tools. It can connect an unlimited number of people from any site at any time
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