The distorting prism of social media: How self-selection and exposure to incivility fuel online comment toxicity

JW Kim, A Guess, B Nyhan… - Journal of Communication, 2021 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Comments, shares, or likes: What makes news posts engaging in different ways

O Tenenboim - Social Media+ Society, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In a digital media environment where content distribution is shaped by technology
companies' algorithms and user behaviors, news organizations try to post content that can …

Upvotes? Downvotes? No Votes? Understanding the relationship between reaction mechanisms and political discourse on Reddit

O Papakyriakopoulos, S Engelmann… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Contagion of offensive speech online: An interactional analysis of political swearing

Y Song, Q Lin, KH Kwon, CHY Choy, R Xu - Computers in Human Behavior, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite their positive effects in promoting participatory politics, digital publics have also
manifested an offensive vernacular culture. This study takes a social network analytic …

“Toxic atmosphere effect”: Uncivil online comments cue negative audience perceptions of news outlet credibility

GM Masullo, O Tenenboim, S Lu - Journalism, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Uncivil user comments have been found to have a negative effect on how people perceive
an issue featured in the news, a news story, or a journalist who reports a news story. To …

Different platforms, different uses: Testing the effect of platforms and individual differences on perception of incivility and self-reported uncivil behavior

DJ Sude, S Dvir-Gvirsman - Journal of Computer-Mediated …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Two large surveys with adult samples of Americans (N= 1,105; N= 1,035) investigated
differences in perceived incivility between seven social media platforms. Perceptions of …

Social approval and network homophily as motivators of online toxicity

J Jiang, L Luceri, JB Walther, E Ferrara - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.07779, 2023 - arxiv.org
Online hate messaging is a pervasive issue plaguing the well-being of social media users.
This research empirically investigates a novel theory positing that online hate may be driven …

[PDF][PDF] Differential perceptions of and reactions to incivil and intolerant user comments

AS Kümpel, J Unkel - Journal of Computer-Mediated …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Building on recent research that challenges the notion that norm violations in online
discussions are inherently detrimental, this study relies on a distinction between incivil and …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding news-related user comments and their effects: a systematic review

E Kubin, P Merz, M Wahba, C Davis, K Gray… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
There has been growing interest in research on news-related user comments. Here we
conduct the first systematic review of this literature—quantitatively and qualitatively (248 …

Incivility in Comparison: How Context, Content, and Personal Characteristics Predict Exposure to Uncivil Content

F Schmidt, S Stier, L Otto - Social Science Computer Review, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …