While survey research has been at the heart of social science for decades and social
scientific research with digital trace data has been growing rapidly in the last few years, until …

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 …

Discussing things you care about can be difficult, especially via online platforms, where
sharing your opinion leaves you open to the real and immediate threats of abuse and …

Background: Despite vaccine availability, vaccine hesitancy has inhibited public health
officials' efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Although some US …

High-quality online dialogues help sustain democracy. Deliberative theory, which predates
the internet, provides the primary model for assessing the quality of online dialogues. It …

This study examined political advertisements placed by the Russian-based Internet
Research Agency on Facebook and Instagram. Advertisements were computationally …

Incivility, that is, the breaking of social norms of conversation, is evidently prevalent in online
political communication. While a growing literature provides evidence on the prevalence of …

Although online political incivility has increasingly become an object of scholarly inquiry,
there exists little agreement on the construct's precise definition. The goal of this work was …

Spreading uncivil negative campaign messages is a “high-risk, high reward” campaign
strategy since certain voters are more likely to be swayed by negative messaging whereas …

Many forms of online political incivility threaten democratic norms, contribute to polarization,
and are often directed at women and racial minorities. Recent research shows that online …