Antisemitism and Hate-Speech in Social Media

The antisemitism hackathon and datathon 2023 and 2024 are documented here:

• GitHub repo with notes and code

This repo contains the code examples for the practical Webinar held by Damir Cavar (and Günther Jikeli and Katharina Soemer).

Previous Events

During the summer of 2020, that is during the Covid-19 pandemic and under lockdown, we managed an international Datathon and Hackathon, focusing on antisemitic tweets and the development of corpora and machine learning algorithms to classify and label hate-speech and antisemitic content.

Here are some articles and resources that document this project and its outcomes:

• Antisemitism Datathon and Hackathon event challenges students to grow socially and technologically
• Antisemitism on Social Media Datathon and Hackathon
• Annotating Antisemitic Online Content: Towards an Applicable Definition of Antisemitism
• Datathon and Hackathon on Antisemitism Follow-up
• Social Media, Hate Speech, and Free Speech in Our Increasingly Globalized World
• Report by the winning team

The award ceremony video with speeches by Elaine Monaghan and Lee Finestein, comments by Damir Cavar, Guenther Jikeli, and participating students:

• Social Media and Antisemitism Hackathon and Datathon. Awards ceremony with keynote speakers Elaine Monaghan and Lee Feinstein

Publications

• Günther Jikeli, Damir Cavar, Weejeong Jeong, Daniel Miehling, Pauravi Wagh, Denizhan Pak (2022) Toward an AI Definition of Antisemitism? Pages 193-212 in M. Hübscher and S. von Mering (eds.) Antisemitism on Social Media. Routledge, New York.

• Annotating Antisemitic Online Content: Towards an Applicable Definition of Antisemitism (2019) Günther Jikeli, Damir Cavar, Daniel Miehling.