There’s sometimes a perception that social media apps fuel violence, but researchers say that correlation can be overblown. And instead, some communities are using social media as an anti-violence tool.
The relationship between social media and violence might not be as cut-and-dry as some make it to be.
“I think that our alarmist claims that social media is driving violence are way overblown and in some cases, incredibly inaccurate and in other cases really quite racist at their core,” Stuart said. Many of those cases involve young men of color who are facing possible enhanced sentencing due their social media posts that a judge may believe are gang related. But what Williams finds in his work is that much of the social media activity isn’t gang related, it’s more pop culture.
“It’s the latest shiny object distraction that stops us from actually talking about the real reasons why people commit crime,” Stuart said. “Violence is the result of trauma and desperate acts of survival.”
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