Gangbangin on the [Face]Book: Understanding Online Interactions of Chicago Latina/o Gangs

Leverso, John; Hsiao, Yuan

doi:10.1177/0022427820952124

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“…Life online remains anchored in the lived experience (Lane 2018;Roks et al 2020), which is why references to physical territories, such as street signs or zip codes (Densley 2013;Irwin-Rogers et al 2018), are a fixture of "internet banging" (Patton et al 2013). Leverso and Hsiao (2020) learned from digital trace data scraped from a public Facebook page about Chicago Latino gangs (resulting in over 140,000 posts, likes, comments, and comment replies) and combined with law enforcement data on the geographic locations of gangs, that fighting among gang members in the online environment was conditional on the type of post displayed, but also the geographic proximity of gang territory. They found gang members using social media to interact with other gangs in faraway locales as well as individuals nearby, but the tone and tenor of that communication often reflected the degree of physical distance.…”

Section: Gang Violence On Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media and the Variable Impact of Violence Reduction Interventions: Re-Examining Focused Deterrence in Philadelphia

Densley

Roman

2021

Social Sciences

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Focused deterrence is a gang violence reduction strategy that relies on a unique mix of strong enforcement messages from law enforcement and judicial officials coupled with the promise of additional services. At the heart of the intervention is a coordinated effort to communicate the costs and consequences of gun violence to identified gang members during face-to-face meetings and additional community messaging. In Philadelphia, focused deterrence was implemented between 2013 and 2016, and although an impact evaluation showed a significant decrease in shootings in targeted areas relative to matched comparison neighborhoods, the effect on targeted gangs was not universal, with some exhibiting no change or an increase in gun-related activity. Here, we employ data on group-level social media usage and content to examine the correlations with gun violence. We find that several factors, including the nature of social media activity by the gang (e.g., extent of activity and who is engaging), are associated with increases in the average rate of gang-attributable shootings during the evaluation period, while content-specific variables (e.g., direct threats towards rivals and law enforcement) were not associated with increases in shootings. Implications for violence reduction policy, including the implementation of focused deterrence, are discussed.

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Section: Gang Violence On Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media and the Variable Impact of Violence Reduction Interventions: Re-Examining Focused Deterrence in Philadelphia

Densley

Roman

2021

Social Sciences

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“…The positive and negative influences among online community users were investigated by Leverso and Hsiao (2021) . The relationship of these influences is investigated based on the analysis of information traces formed on public Facebook about the content of Chicago Latino gangs using negative binomial regression models.…”

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Decision-making approaches in the antagonistic digital communication of the online communities users

Федушко

Молодецька

Syerov

2023

Soc. Netw. Anal. Min.

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The information space is an effective hybrid warfare tool on the web. This study investigated the decision-making process in the antagonistic digital communication of internet services users. Implementation of the proposed methods in this study minimized the negative impact of the spread of destructive content and actions of unfair competitors in the ecosystem of social internet services. The innovativeness of the suggested methods is the ability to make real-time decisions in a situation of antagonistic behavior of online users. The authors presented a model to secure user data, contributing to sustainable communicative interaction for its managers and users. This article presented approaches to decision-making by online community administrators under conditions of antagonistic behavior of the online services, which ensures the increase of efficiency of online communication. Timely and effective decision-making eliminated the negative impact of conflicts between communities and the spread of threats to users' information security. The algorithm of decision-making by users of stable internet services is suggested. This article contains examples of using the examined Wald and Savage criteria for making optimal decisions, confirmed by many experiments. The developed methods are tested on the online community on the social network Facebook. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s13278-022-01021-4.

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“…Older, "hard core" gang members (ie veteranos and "original gangsters" or "OGs") are more likely to be found in less accessible public set space and on prison yards, not school yards (Pyrooz & Decker, 2019;Skarbek, 2014;Weide, 2020). The fact that gang affiliated individuals discuss and perform their subcultural identity differently in different spaces and across time-including on social media and across cyber space in recent years (Leverso & Hsiao, 2021;Moore & Stuart, 2022;Storrod & Densley, 2017;Stuart, 2020)-adds to the difficulty in doing holistic gang research out of context and when spatially removed from where "gang activity" is actually practiced (Bloch, 2018).…”

Section: Gangs In Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gangs, gang members, and geography

Bloch

2022

Geography Compass

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Gangs are geographically oriented social entities as evidenced by the display of cardinal points in their graffiti, the use of neighborhood namesakes, a focus on territoriality as their raison d'être, as well as in the way they are policed and legally cordoned. Despite gang members' real and imagined penchant for transgressive place‐making and demarcation, it has been sociologists and criminologists, not geographers, who have produced the lion's share of spatially nuanced research on gangs. In this article, I provide a review of the social scientific literature on gangs, concluding with a call for how to make the discipline of geography more inclusive for gang researchers who possess real‐world experience with assertive place‐making practices.

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Gangbangin on the [Face]Book: Understanding Online Interactions of Chicago Latina/o Gangs

Cited by 13 publications

References 44 publications

Social Media and the Variable Impact of Violence Reduction Interventions: Re-Examining Focused Deterrence in Philadelphia

Social Media and the Variable Impact of Violence Reduction Interventions: Re-Examining Focused Deterrence in Philadelphia

Decision-making approaches in the antagonistic digital communication of the online communities users

Gangs, gang members, and geography

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