Linguistic style and affect shape how users perceive and assess political content on social
media. Using linguistic methods to compare political discourse on far-left, mainstream and …

In this work, we investigate whether and how the presence of political hashtags in social
media news articles influences the way people discuss news content. Specifically, we …

Highlights•A classification of key research on political communication on Twitter.•Nuances of
political communication are hard to capture through quantitative methods.•Contextual study …

A significant share of political discourse occurs online on social media platforms.
Policymakers and researchers try to understand the role of social media design in shaping …

Social media creates a geographically independent commons that transforms citizen
participation in political discourse. In our study, we examine 185,420 publicly available …

This study examines a way to promote civility in online political discussions through
modeling discursive cues. An online experiment (N= 321) was conducted to investigate the …

Studies of political discussions online have been dominated by approaches that focus
exclusively on deliberation, ignoring other equally relevant communication norms. This …

This study examined how comments posted on news stories about the 2016 presidential
election reflected the disruptive discourses of the campaign itself. A quantitative content …

Though prior studies have analyzed the textual characteristics of online comments about
politics, less is known about how selection into commenting behavior and exposure to other …

In the last decade, social networks have emerged as a significant media platform for
dissemination of political information. In this article, we characterize linguistic factors that …