Online Racism

• Short-term chronic exposure to online racism and its impact on alcohol use as a risky coping behavior
• Hate groups, hate crimes, hate crime laws, and racism
• Latent profiles of online racism exposure among racial/ethnic minority groups
• White anti-racism behaviors and attitudes in response to witnessing racism online
• Racism in gaming and mental health costs
• Anticipatory stress and social costs of online racism
• Online racism, ethnic-racial socialization, online support seeking, and health outcomes
• Internet and anti-racism advocacy

*denotes student co-authors

Keum, B.T., & Li, X. (2022). Coping with online racism: Patterns of online social support seeking and anti-racism advocacy associated with online racism, and correlates of ethnic-racial socialization, perceived health, and alcohol use severity. PLoS ONE, 17(12), e0278763. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278763

Keum, B.T., *Waters, E., *Wong, M.J., *Salim-Eissa, R. (2022). Witnessing racism against racial minority individuals online and loneliness among White emerging adults: Anti-racism advocacy as a moderator. Journal of Community Psychology, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22944

Keum, B.T., Li, X., & *Wong, M.J. (2022). Hate as a System: Examining hate crimes and hate groups as state level moderators on the impact of online and offline racism on mental health. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 91, 44-55.      https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2022.09.002

Keum, B.T., & Cano, M.A. (2023). Online racism, depressive and anxiety symptoms, coping-related drinking motives, and alcohol use severity among Black, Latina/o/x, and Asian emerging adults. Addictive behaviors, 136, 107468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107468

Keum, B.T. (2022). Impact of online racism on suicide ideation through perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness among racial minority emerging adults. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221117247

Keum, B.T., Wang, Y.W., Abebe, I., Callaway, J., Cruz, T., & O’Connor, S. (2022). Benefits and Harms of Social Media Use: A Latent Profile Analysis of Emerging Adults. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03473-5

Keum, B.T., & Li, X. (2022). Online Racism, Rumination, and Vigilance: Impact on Distress, Loneliness, and Alcohol Use. The Counseling Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1177/00110000221143521

Keum, B.T., & *Hearns, M. (2021). Online Gaming and Racism: Impact on Psychological Distress Across Black, Asian, and Latinx Emerging Adults. Games and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120211039082

Keum, B.T., & Cano, M.A. (2021). Online Racism, Psychological Distress, and Alcohol Use among Racial Minority Women and Men: A Multi-group Mediation Analysis. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 91(4), 524–530. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000553

*Imperato, C., Keum, B.T., & Mancini, T. (2021). Does intercultural contact increase Anti-racist behavior on social network sites? Social Sciences, 10(6), 207. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10060207

Keum, B.T. (2021). Does Witnessing Racism Online Promote Individual and Institutional Anti-Racism Advocacy Among White Individuals? The Role of White Empathy, White Guilt, and White Fear of Other Races. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2020.0629

Keum, B.T. (2021). Development and Validation of the Perceived Online Racism Scale Short Form (15 Items) and Very Brief (Six Items). Computers in Human Behaviors Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2021.100082

Keum, B.T. & *Ahn, L.H. (2021). Impact of Online Racism on Psychological Distress and Alcohol Use: Test of Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Silence about Race as Moderators. Computers in Human Behaviors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106773

Cano, M. A., Schwartz, S. J., MacKinnon, D. P., Keum, B.T., Prado, G., Marsiglia, F. F., Salas-Wright, C. P., Cobb, C., Garcini, L. M., De La Rosa, M., Sánchez, M., Rahman, A., Acosta, L., Roncancio, A. M., & de Dios, M. A. (2021). Exposure to ethnic discrimination in social media and symptoms of anxiety and depression among Hispanic emerging adults: Examining the moderating role of gender. Journal of Clinical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.23050

Keum, B.T. & Miller, M.J. (2018). Measurement Invariance of the Perceived Online Racism Scale across Age and Gender. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 12(3), 3. https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2018-3-3

Keum, B.T. & Miller, M.J. (2018). Racism on the Internet: Conceptualization and Recommendations for Research. Psychology of Violence, 8(6), 782 – 791. https://doi.org/10.1037/vio0000201 *Special issue: Racism, Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, Privilege, and Violence: Advancing Science to Inform Practice and Policy

Keum, B.T., & Miller, M.J. (2017). Racism in Digital Era: Development and Initial Validation of the Perceived Online Racism Scale (PORS v1.0). Journal of Counseling Psychology, 64(3), 310-324. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000205

Keum, B.T. (2017). Qualitative Examination on the Influences of the Internet on Racism and its Online Manifestation. International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning, 7(3), 13-23. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJCBPL.2017070102

2022-25          New Investigator Award (T32KT4680)

Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP)

State of California

$775,866

PI: Brian TaeHyuk Keum, Ph.D.

Project Title: Risk of tobacco product use associated with online racism among Black emerging adults

2017-19         Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral

                        Fellowship

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

$40,000

PI: Brian TaeHyuk Keum, Ph.D.

Project Title: Racism in the Digital Era: Conceptualization and Operationalization of Online

Racism