Meaner on Mobile: Incivility and Impoliteness in Communicating Contentious Politics on Sociotechnical Networks:

Social Media + Society

Jacob Groshek¹ 

关键词: mobile communication;    social media;    incivility;    impoliteness;    dialogic affordances;    big;    small data;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2056305116677137

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

This study explores the nature of how mobile social media may potentially be sharpening the tenor of communicating online. Specifically, randomized representative Twitter data were collected for several controversial issues, and then examined to determine the extent to which mobile or web-based content tends more toward greater incivility and impoliteness. Additional analyses further model how certain dialogic features, such as explicitly mentioning other users and retweeting others’ posts, positively relate to hostility in the discourse. Building on the basis of technological affordances and user negotiation in digitally mediated environments, this study contributes to a better understanding of how individuals express themselves on mobile devices as these are rapidly becoming normalized modes for communicating with one another online.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC