Party v. The People: Testing corrective action and supportive engagement in a partisan political context

Duncan, Megan; Coppini, David

doi:10.1080/19331681.2019.1644266

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“…Because of this fear, people are motivated to take action to correct public opinion by speaking out even when their opinion is in the minority [23]. Similar findings are found both in the news report and social media discussion situation; people who have received hostile news or received negative social media comments on their opinion would like to speak out to protect their opinion [24,25].…”

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“…For instance, some studies found people who held the minority opinion did not have much change in their willingness of opinion expression while comparing with majority opinion [15,30]. Besides, some studies proposed that minority perception increased individuals' willingness of opinion expression [23][24][25]29].…”

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Opinion Expression Dynamics in Social Media Chat Groups: An Integrated Quasi-Experimental and Agent-Based Model Approach

Zhang

2021

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Social media chat groups, such as WeChat and WhatsApp groups, are widely applied in online communication. This research has conducted two studies to examine the individual level and collective level’s opinion dynamics in those groups. The opinion dynamic is driven by two variables, people’s perceived peer support and willingness of opinion expression. The perceived peer support influences the willingness of opinion expression, and the willingness influences the dynamics of real opinion-expression. First, the quasi-experimental study recruited twenty-five participants as the observation group and found that decreasing perceived peer support would significantly increase individuals’ expression willingness to protect his/her opinion. To generalize the individual level findings to a collective level, the second study treated the social media chat groups as an undirected fully-connected social network and simulated people’s opinion expression dynamics with an agent-based model. The simulation indicated that (1) with the help of increased willingness of opinion expression, the minority opinion supporters as a collective did not fall silent but continue to express themselves and (2) increasing willingness of opinion expression would maintain the existence of minority opinion but could not help the minority reverse to the majority.

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Opinion Expression Dynamics in Social Media Chat Groups: An Integrated Quasi-Experimental and Agent-Based Model Approach

Zhang

2021

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“…Research has shown that a consensual opinion climate, compared to a mixed one, leads people to perceive a given piece of information more favorably, and further increase people’s likelihood of expressing an opinion ( Duncan and Coppini, 2019 ). On the one hand, in a political context, for instance, individuals’ views are more quickly crystalized when their views are endorsed by their network; accordingly, they are more likely to express their views ( Mutz, 2002 ).…”

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Fostering mask-wearing with virality metrics and social media literacy: evidence from the U.S. and Korea

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Although social media can pose threats to the public health by spreading misinformation and causing confusion, they can also provide wider access to health information and opportunities for health surveillance. The current study investigates the ways in which preventive health behaviors and norms can be promoted on social media by analyzing data from surveys and experiments conducted in the U.S. and South Korea. Survey results suggest that the pathway from social media use for COVID-19 information to mask-wearing behavior through mask-wearing norms emerges only among individuals with strong perceived social media literacy in the U.S. Experimental findings show that wear-a-mask campaign posts on social media foster mask-wearing norms and behavioral intention when they come with large (vs. small) virality metrics (e.g., Likes, shares) in both the U.S. and South Korea. Additionally, American users are more willing to engage with posts that come with supportive (vs. mixed) comments by Liking, sharing and commenting. The results highlight the need to cultivate social media literacy and opportunities for exploiting social media virality metrics for promoting public health norms and behaviors.

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“…That cue about what news is seen as popular may motivate users to express their opinion to correct public opinion. In online comment sections, the DUNCAN -SELECTIVE RATING 11 distribution of opinions affects the audience's perception of the opinion climate and can spur more expression among those who do not see their opinion represented (Duncan, et al, 2020;Duncan & Coppini, 2019). Similarly, audience members may be more motivated to express their opinions if likeminded news brands are not represented in the options available to rate.…”

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Selective rating: partisan bias in crowdsourced news rating systems

Duncan

2022

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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Crowdsourced news rating systems have been suggested as a solution to reducing the amount of misinformation online audiences see. This study expands previous research crowdsourcing by looking at how characteristics of the rating system affect user behavior. In an experiment (N=1,021), two parameters of the rating system were manipulated. First, users were shown different varieties of news brands on the "menu" they were asked to rate. Second, participation was mandatory for half and voluntary for others. Results indicate partisans rated more news brands when they saw an ideologically dissimilar news menu than one that matched their ideology. Further, the trustworthiness rating of the mainstream news menu decreased when participants had a choice to participate rather than were forced. These results have important implications for understanding how users participate in crowdsourcing news credibility.

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Party v. The People: Testing corrective action and supportive engagement in a partisan political context

Cited by 3 publications

References 49 publications

Opinion Expression Dynamics in Social Media Chat Groups: An Integrated Quasi-Experimental and Agent-Based Model Approach

Opinion Expression Dynamics in Social Media Chat Groups: An Integrated Quasi-Experimental and Agent-Based Model Approach

Fostering mask-wearing with virality metrics and social media literacy: evidence from the U.S. and Korea

Selective rating: partisan bias in crowdsourced news rating systems

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