Brevity Is the Soul of Twitter: The Constraint Affordance and Political Discussion

Jaidka, Kokil; Zhou, Alvin; Lelkes, Yphtach

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3287552

Cited by 27 publications

(32 citation statements)

References 85 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…For instance, Twitter recently changed its platform to allow users to post longer messages (from 140 to 280 characters). An initial analysis suggests that this subtle change in the design actually influenced people’s tendency to post content that was relatively more analytical and also more polite (Jaidka, Zhou, & Lelkes, 2019). In this way, the subtle design features of each platform will elicit different patterns of expression and behavior.…”

Section: The Design Of Social Media Facilitates the Spread Of Emotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online

Brady

Crockett

Bavel

2020

Perspect Psychol Sci

254

227

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

With more than 3 billion users, online social networks represent an important venue for moral and political discourse and have been used to organize political revolutions, influence elections, and raise awareness of social issues. These examples rely on a common process to be effective: the ability to engage users and spread moralized content through online networks. Here, we review evidence that expressions of moral emotion play an important role in the spread of moralized content (a phenomenon we call moral contagion). Next, we propose a psychological model called the motivation, attention, and design (MAD) model to explain moral contagion. The MAD model posits that people have group-identity-based motivations to share moral-emotional content, that such content is especially likely to capture our attention, and that the design of social-media platforms amplifies our natural motivational and cognitive tendencies to spread such content. We review each component of the model (as well as interactions between components) and raise several novel, testable hypotheses that can spark progress on the scientific investigation of civic engagement and activism, political polarization, propaganda and disinformation, and other moralized behaviors in the digital age.

show abstract

Section: The Design Of Social Media Facilitates the Spread Of Emotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online

Brady

Crockett

Bavel

2020

Perspect Psychol Sci

254

227

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Notably, Jaidka et al (2019) show that interactions with U.S. political figures on Twitter became more civil and polite and more likely to include constructive information-sharing after Twitter expanded its character limit for tweets. The self-segregation inherent in the partisan streams we study 4 implies a context of increased partisan homogeneity relative to the free-for-all of Twitter, however.…”

Section: Figure 1 Screenshot Of Debate Streamed On Abc News Facebookmentioning

confidence: 99%

Connective Effervescence and Streaming Chat During Political Debates

Ventura¹,

Munger²,

McCabe

et al. 2021

JQD

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recent advancements in online streaming technologies have re-centered the audience as an important part of live broadcasts, including live political events. In fall 2020, each of the U.S. presidential and vice presidential debates were streamed on a number of online platforms that provided an integrated streaming chat where the public could comment in real-time alongside the live debate video. Viewers could simultaneously tune into what the candidates were saying and see what a sample of their peers thought about the candidates. This study examines large samples of comments made in social chat feeds during the livestreamed debates on the ABC News, NBC News, and Fox News Facebook pages to quantify key features associated with the quality of political discussion on these platforms. The results reveal that consistent with the quasi-anonymous, constrained nature of dynamic chat, the comments made are generally short, include a substantial degree of toxicity and insults, and differ significantly in their content across platforms. These findings underscore the importance of further study of online streaming chat as a new source of potential influence on political attitudes and behavior.

show abstract

“…It may imply impacting the members in discursive interaction -their opinions, thoughts, assessments thus finally coming to a particular decision. The powerful influence of discursive fields on the organization of content consumption can serve as a solid manipulative base -political, ideological, psychological, cognitive attitudes are introduced into mass consciousness through the formation and functioning of a certain discursive field [5][6][7][8]. The «forceful nature» of online discursive fields is ensured by their functioning in the so-called «filter bubble» and by complex linguo-cognitive structures generated by the discursive field -innovative linguistic patterns.…”

Section: Problem Statement and Theoretical Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Linguistic models of social and political communication in the online-space: cognitive and pragmatic aspect

Katermina

Gnedash

2020

SHS Web Conf.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The socio-political context of the «post-truth» era, conditioned by the digitalization of all spheres of life, transforms the network content, which forms the basis of network discourses and is the main source of information for the network society. As a result, network content is not simply determined by the categorical concepts of «fact» – «myth», but is completely transformed into the conceptual-categorical apparatus «fact» – «alternative fact», which is essentially informational speculation and leads to the development of destructive socio-political practices and distribution of fake online content. Based on a comprehensive analysis of network data (a methodology developed by the authors that combines theories and methodologies of several areas of scientific knowledge), linguistic models of social and political communication in the online-space were identified and described («Ali Juppe» in France, «Pizzagate» in the USA, «Migrantskidnappers» in India and Pakistan); the result of consumption of new linguo-pragmatic patterns («Allan Juppe – an accomplice of Islamic extremists»; «Don’t vote for Clinton, Vote for Trump» and the side pattern «Save children from pedophiles»; «Pakistani migrants pose a threat») by users of the online-space in the specified countries was investigated; the results of the models’ actions are given and the offline result of the consumption of these patterns is described. The research develops a new direction of linguistic science – network linguistics; consideration of new network models of communication (cognitive stereotypes and linguopragmatic patterns) in the online-space is the main genuine identifier of the discourse varieties formed offline that determine the further behavior (constructive and / or destructive) of the user both online and offline.

show abstract

Brevity Is the Soul of Twitter: The Constraint Affordance and Political Discussion

Cited by 27 publications

References 85 publications

The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online

The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online

Connective Effervescence and Streaming Chat During Political Debates

Linguistic models of social and political communication in the online-space: cognitive and pragmatic aspect

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About