Imagine that you have been asked to deliver a podcast to a community that has recently been in the news due to a rise in hate crimes. Write your assignment as if it were a transcript of your podcast. Address the following in your podcast transcript.
- Explain what determines whether or not a crime is categorized as a hate crime.
- Explain how social media can fuel hate crime within a community.
- Describe two strategies for bringing cultural awareness into the community in effort to reduce hate crime.
Your assignment must be at least three pages in length. If outside sources are used, please adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references for this assignment. APA formatting, however, is not necessary.
Requirements: Depth
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Social media is a collection of websites and applications which form a platform for communication, community input, interaction, information exchange, and coordination. Social media platforms play an essential role in communication, advocacy, creating awareness, and education. Despite its benefits, social media has fueled hate crime over the years in our community. Hate crime on social media is often driven by hate speech (Müller and Schwarz, 2021). This comprises social media postings that are targeted against a given group. It also includes videos, comments, substantial claims, violent rhetoric, fake news, lies, and messages that incite violence towards a group or individual. In our community, social media has become a significant source of information. The information is shared across different platforms hence is likely to reach a more substantial number of people than before.
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