To Share or Not to Share? How Emotional Judgments Drive Online Political Expression in High-Risk Contexts

Dal, Aysenur; Nisbet, Erik C.

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“…While we propose a thorough examination of the media content circulating in the media sphere, we are in the dark regarding the intentions of the journalistic coverage as well as the motivations behind social media users’ responses to these cases. In an authoritarian society where citizens refrain from being actively involved in political protest (Dal & Nisbet, 2022), subtle expressions of emotions on social media can be regarded as alternative strategies adopted to fulfill their needs for political expression (Oz & Yanik, 2022). Yet, to definitively determine the motivations of emotional reactions to social issues on social media, future research should combine content analyses with pointed audience research to determine the intentions of user behavior.…”

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The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey

Baş

Ogan

Varol

2022

Social Media + Society

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Evidence that women have paid the price of what has been labeled the “shadow pandemic” is found in the increase in violence against them. The rates of femicide and lack of trust in the Turkish judicial system of the authoritarian government are worrisome. Protests have been made in the streets and through social media in response. Our goal was to determine the role of legacy news media and social media in bringing awareness of the femicide issue to the public and how affective publics function surrounding a relatively unaddressed societal problem using datasets created by women’s organizations. We conducted a content analysis on 150 sampled femicide cases in Turkey before and during the pandemic taken from online news sources. We investigated the quality of traditional news media coverage and the volume of social media users expressing emotional reactions to individual femicides over time. Results suggest that the journalistic performance of covering the issue of femicide fails to detail essential facts, and awareness and concern for the issue are evident in the Likes, retweets, shares, and expressions of emotional engagement provided to the victims, while online reactions to femicide have increased substantially since 2019, contributing to the formation of affective publics. The study makes a conceptual contribution to the understanding of legacy media and social media’s roles in spurring public engagement about serious social problems in autocratic political contexts while advancing the methodological tools of combining social scientific techniques with computational ones.

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The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey

Baş

Ogan

Varol

2022

Social Media + Society

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“…They transform judgment and decision-making into a less costly process when lacking motivation or resources for systematic and cognitively demanding risk calculations (Slovic et al, 2004). Accordingly, hot processes of decision-making driven by affective responses provide information to guide judgment and motivate behavior (Evans et al, 2015; Peters et al, 2006), with positive feelings increasing the likelihood of engaging in the activity and negative ones diminishing it, while often occurring in tandem with each other (Dal and Nisbet, 2022; Larson et al, 2001; Smith and Ellsworth, 1985).…”

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Signaling silence: Affective and cognitive responses to risks of online activism about corruption in an authoritarian context

Dal

Nisbet²,

Kamenchuk

2022

New Media & Society

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Networked authoritarian governments’ use of digital repression creates uncertainty and amplifies risk signals for ordinary citizens using social media for political expression. Employing theoretical frameworks from the risk and decision-making literature, we experimentally examine how citizens perceive and respond to the risks of low-effort forms of online activism in an authoritarian context. Our online field experiment demonstrates that emotional responses to the regime’s risk signals about online activism drive decision-making about contentious online political expression as compared with cognitive appraisal of risk. Moreover, the relationship between anticipatory emotions and contentious online political expression varies significantly depending on individuals’ involvement with the controversial topic of expression. We discuss the importance of emotions and citizen risk judgments for understanding online activism within networked authoritarian contexts.

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“…Finally, in authoritarian societies, uncertainty about technological and sociopolitical sanctions by governments counter online dissent or collective action (Sanovich, Stukal and Tucker 2018). In such contexts, the 'cost' of political expression may be different than the 'risk' of sanction, exposing these as inequivalent concepts (Dal and Nisbet 2020).…”

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Comparative Privacy Research: Literature Review, Framework, and Research Agenda

Masur¹,

Epstein²,

Quinn³

et al. 2021

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The ways in which privacy is defined, perceived, and enacted are contingent on cultural, social, political, economic, and technological structures. Privacy research, however, is often conducted in settings that do not account for variations in how privacy is perceived and enacted. A comparative perspective explicitly addresses this shortcoming by requiring the contextualization of privacy through investigating structural similarities and differences. This paper outlines a comparative privacy research framework, which proposes five interrelated structures (cultural, social, political, economic, and technological) as fruitful units of comparison and disentangles how these structures affect and interact with privacy processes at the micro-, meso-, and macro levels. We conclude by proposing a comparative privacy research agenda, which acknowledges the embeddedness of privacy in such structural settings, and informs efforts to address privacy as a valued outcome through policy formation, education, and research.

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To Share or Not to Share? How Emotional Judgments Drive Online Political Expression in High-Risk Contexts

Cited by 10 publications

References 82 publications

The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey

The Role of Legacy Media and Social Media in Increasing Public Engagement About Violence Against Women in Turkey

Signaling silence: Affective and cognitive responses to risks of online activism about corruption in an authoritarian context

Comparative Privacy Research: Literature Review, Framework, and Research Agenda

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