We address the problem of hate speech detection in online user comments. Hate speech, defined as an “abusive speech targeting specific group characteristics, such as ethnicity, religion, or gender”, is an important problem plaguing websites that allow users to leave feedback, having a negative impact on their online business and overall user experience. We propose to learn distributed low-dimen...

Although social media use among religious communities is proliferating, significant gaps remain in our understanding of how minorities perceive relation to their faith and community. Thus, we ask individuals religion frame moral attitudes around for Jews Muslims. Specifically, does shape understandings community? We analyze 52 interviews with Muslims sampled from Houston Chicago. find that view...

In December 1996, TIME magazine published an article titled ‘‘Finding God on the Web,’’ which projected how the Internet would shape information seeking on faith and religion. A decade later, the Web has become a popular tool for gathering religious information as well as information and imagery related to religious travel. Yet there is little research on religious destination imagery online. I...

Religion has long been playing a significant role in influencing human behavior. However, its business value as a predictor of buyer behavior has not been sufficiently examined in e-commerce context. The main contribution of this paper is to show the connection between the degree of religiosity and interpersonal trust (cognitive and affect-based trust) in Business to-Consumer (B2C) e-commerce. ...