Dr. Carlos Eduardo Pimentel:

I believe that you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript, "#NeotericRacism: Exploring Race-Based Content in Social Media During Racially Charged Current Events," which has been submitted to Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology. The submission's abstract is inserted below, and I hope that you will consider undertaking this important task for us.

Please log into the journal web site by 2017-11-27 to indicate whether you will undertake the review or not, as well as to access the submission and to record your review and recommendation. The web site is https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP

The review itself is due 2017-12-18.

If you do not have your username and password for the journal's web site, you can use this link to reset your password (which will then be emailed to you along with your username). https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/login/resetPassword/carlospimentel?confirm=17e1c4787593ad35f048fabe72dbb7a074c09afa6fdb1f4a44e66ebc6a1b684d%3A1511201458

Submission URL: https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission/253

Thank you for considering this request.

Dr. Edil Torres Rivera
South University
etorresrivera@gmail.com



"#NeotericRacism: Exploring Race-Based Content in Social Media During Racially Charged Current Events"

Abstract

Research regarding the expression of race-based content on social media is sparse. To contribute to this understudied area in psychology, a qualitative study was conducted to explore messages used in social media during racially charged events. In the current study, content analysis was used to explore how Twitter users expressed raced-based content following the grand jury decision in the racially-charged case of Michael Brown. A total of N = 101 tweets using the hashtag Ferguson were analyzed and coded. Five categories emerged including content related to racial hatred, support of systems enacting racial injustice, racial epithets, opposition to racism, and news coverage. Categories formed three themes: a) content related to racism, b) anti-racists content, and c) news coverage. Implications are discussed and the paper culminates with recommendations for psychologists considering ways to utilize and integrate social media into their professional roles.
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor
Interamerican Journal of Psychology
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP