{"id":624,"date":"2019-02-21T21:47:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T21:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/?p=624"},"modified":"2019-02-21T21:47:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T21:47:57","slug":"jussie-smolletts-controversy-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cci.utk.edu\/ric\/2019\/02\/21\/jussie-smolletts-controversy-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Jussie Smollett\u2019s Controversy on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/people\/graduate-assistant\/\">Ying Xiong<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nJussie Smollett, an American singer and actor, recently have involved in the controversy of the racial issue and hate crime on social media. According to a statement released by the Chicago Police Department, In January 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jussie-smollett-attack-chicago-police-dispute-reports-empire-actor-hoax\/\">Jussie Smollett was beaten by two men who approached<\/a> him by yelling out \u201cracial and homophobic slurs.\u201d They assaulted Smollett and \u201cpoured an unknown chemical substance\u201d on him. However, Chicago police recently tweeted that reports about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/chicago-police-jussie-smollett-considered-suspect-his-report-hate-crime-n973036\">&#8220;incident being a hoax are unconfirmed by case detectives.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-635\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-1.57.23-PM-1024x932.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-636\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-2.00.04-PM-1024x918.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From February 14 to February 21, 2019, 1.4 millions of tweets discussed Jussie Smollett on Twitter. The online conversation reached a peak on February 17 and February 20. Overall, social media users held a negative sentiment on the issue. 86.1% of people expressed negative sentiment. The negative sentiment trend surged on February 20.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-625\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-1.39.23-PM-1024x446.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-626\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-1.43.44-PM-1024x398.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The news agencies, such as ABC News, Breaking News, CNN, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and Time, are the top social influencers on the topic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-627\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-1.39.47-PM-1024x784.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Social media users addressed several two topics. First, many social media users attributed the incident as \u201chate crime,\u201d \u201cracial issue,\u201d and \u201choax.\u201d Words, such as race, racist, black, white, and justice were frequently mentioned in the context.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-628\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-1.40.05-PM-1024x737.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-633\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-1.42.38-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-634\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-1.42.51-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Second, many social media users associated with Jussie Smollett with Trump and Trump\u2019s policies.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-629\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-1.41.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-630\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-1.41.17-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-631\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-1.41.32-PM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Ying Xiong Jussie Smollett, an American singer and actor, recently have involved in the controversy of the racial issue and hate crime on social media. According to a statement released by the Chicago Police Department, In January 2019, Jussie Smollett was beaten by two men who approached him by yelling out \u201cracial and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-absmcc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jussie Smollett\u2019s Controversy on Social Media - CCI Research &amp; Innovation Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cci.utk.edu\/ric\/2019\/02\/21\/jussie-smolletts-controversy-on-social-media\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jussie Smollett\u2019s Controversy on Social Media - CCI Research &amp; Innovation Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Posted by Ying Xiong Jussie Smollett, an American singer and actor, recently have involved in the controversy of the racial issue and hate crime on social media. 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