Dark social media participation and well-being

T Quandt, J Klapproth, L Frischlich - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, there have been increasing global concerns about the abuse of digital
technologies for malicious 'dark participation', the spreading of digital offenses, hate speech …

Collective civic moderation for deliberation? Exploring the links between citizens' organized engagement in comment sections and the deliberative quality of online …

D Friess, M Ziegele, D Heinbach - Political Communication, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
High degrees of incivility and hostility in comment sections potentially threaten a deliberative
and inclusive discussion atmosphere. News outlets are struggling with effectively …

Roots of incivility: How personality, media use, and online experiences shape uncivil participation

L Frischlich, T Schatto-Eckrodt, S Boberg… - Media and …, 2021 - ssoar.info
Online media offer unprecedented access to digital public spheres, largely enhancing users'
opportunities for participation and providing new means for strengthening democratic …

The growing field of interdisciplinary research on user comments: A computational scoping review

M Schindler, E Domahidi - New Media & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Online user comments (UCs) as the most popular type of online audience participation
nowadays form a popular and important field of research. The widespread examination of …

Lonely together? Identifying the determinants of collective corrective action against uncivil comments

M Ziegele, TK Naab, P Jost - New Media & Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Journalists, scholars, and citizens have raised concerns regarding the high share of incivility
in comment sections of news outlets. The current study surveyed members of the social …

Online hate does not stay online–how implicit and explicit attitudes mediate the effect of civil negativity and hate in user comments on prosocial behavior

M Weber, C Viehmann, M Ziegele… - Computers in human …, 2020 - Elsevier
Incivility and hateful language in user comments are met with growing concern among
politicians, the general public, and scholars. There are fears that such comments may …

Who is responsible for interventions against problematic comments? Comparing user attitudes in Germany and the United States

MJ Riedl, TK Naab, GM Masullo, P Jost… - Policy & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Online comment sections on news organizations' social media pages provide a unique
forum for exploring attitudes toward platform governance and freedom of expression at the …

Cutting through the comment chaos: A supervised machine learning approach to identifying relevant YouTube comments

AM Möller, SAM Vermeer… - Social Science …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Social scientists often study comments on YouTube to learn about people's attitudes towards
and experiences of online videos. However, not all YouTube comments are relevant in the …

Too civil to care? How online hate speech against different social groups affects bystander intervention

M Obermaier, UK Schmid… - European Journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
A large share of online users has already witnessed online hate speech. Because targets
tend to interpret such bystanders' lack of reaction as agreement with the hate speech …

Incivility

M Bormann, M Ziegele - 86272, 2023 - ssoar.info
Incivility is considered a significant challenge for democratic discourse and has been the
subject of many studies in a variety of contexts. Although political incivility has a long …