Assessing the Prevalence and Predictors of Incivility in Online News Comments Across Six Countries

Salgado, Susana; Gil Zúñiga, Homero; da Silva, Pedro Alcântara; Biscaia, Afonso; Coimbra, Miguel E.; Martins, Bruno; Francisco, Alexandre

doi:10.1080/17512786.2023.2246431

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“…We begin the special issue with the paper "Assessing the Prevalence and Predictors of Incivility in Online News Comments Across Six Countries" (Salgado et al, 2023), which focuses on identifying the factors that contribute to uncivil discourse in reader comments on newspaper websites regarding immigration and unemployment in six nations: Portugal, Spain, Chile, Brazil, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The study adopts a conceptual stance wherein it is postulated that comments posted by users of digital journalistic media can influence how news readers perceive the news topic or the news story itself.…”

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The Promotion of Hate Speech: From a Media and Journalism Perspective

Said-Hung,

Montero-Díaz,

Sánchez-Esparza

2023

Journalism Practice

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This work presents the key ideas of the 13 works that make up the special issue, "The Role of News Media in Promoting Hate Speech," exploring the mechanisms by which hate speech spreads in media-related environments. The objective of this collection of studies is. The authors of these works, hailing from Spain, the United States, India, Portugal, and Norway, have contributed to establishing an approach to the central issue from diverse perspectives, including a legal perspective and addressing elements associated with journalistic practice and the dissemination of hate speech in current digital communication scenarios and help to exacerbate the polarization and prejudice in the public opinion of our current societies.

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The Promotion of Hate Speech: From a Media and Journalism Perspective

Said-Hung,

Montero-Díaz,

Sánchez-Esparza

2023

Journalism Practice

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The Old Meets the New: “Old” Political Communication Concepts in a “‘New” Social Media Era

Salgado,

Biscaia,

Papathanassopoulos

2023

Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication

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Online and Unkind: Examining the Personality Correlates of Online Political Incivility

Mungall,

Pruysers,

Blais

2024

Social Science Computer Review

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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 political incivility may come from a minority of users that are just as hostile offline as they are online, meaning that individual differences in personality traits may be an important predictor of online political incivility. Drawing upon a large sample of adults living in Canada (N = 1725), we examined the association between personality traits and online political incivility using robust measures of psychopathy, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the general traits of the HEXACO. While controlling for a variety of sociodemographic and political variables, we found that people who score higher in honesty-humility, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, as well as the planfulness facet of Machiavellianism, are less likely to report engagement in online political incivility. People who score higher in extraversion, several facets of psychopathy, grandiose and vulnerable narcissism, and antagonistic Machiavellianism, by contrast, are more likely to report engagement in online political incivility. In general, the personality traits that predict offline aggression and antisocial behaviour tend to be the same traits that predict self-reports of vulgarity, stereotyping, and threats in online political discussions. Interventions to reduce online incivility may benefit from considering the dispositional tendencies of uncivil users.

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Assessing the Prevalence and Predictors of Incivility in Online News Comments Across Six Countries

Cited by 4 publications

References 72 publications

The Promotion of Hate Speech: From a Media and Journalism Perspective

The Promotion of Hate Speech: From a Media and Journalism Perspective

The Old Meets the New: “Old” Political Communication Concepts in a “‘New” Social Media Era

Online and Unkind: Examining the Personality Correlates of Online Political Incivility

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