'Waiting with Bated Breath'

Fredericks, Bronwyn; Bradfield, Abraham

doi:10.5204/mcj.2825

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“…Social media is rampant with toxic content, characterized by offensive language, trolling, and the propagation of hate speech. These attacks predominantly aim to silence, insult, or demoralize individuals, particularly those from marginalized communities (Tahmasbi et al 2021;Fredericks and Bradfield 2021). These attacks are usually targeted, e.g., as part of a smear campaign to damage or call into question someone's reputation (Hannan 2018).…”

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Users’ Behavioral and Emotional Response to Toxicity in Twitter Conversations

Aleksandric,

Saha Roy,

Pankaj

et al. 2024

ICWSM

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Prior works have shown connections between online toxicity attacks, such as harassment, cyberbullying, and hate speech, and the subsequent increase in offline violence, as well as negative psychological effects on victims. These correlations are primarily identified through user studies conducted via virtual environments, simulations, and questionnaires. However, no work has investigated how, in practice and authentically, people react to online toxicity both emotionally, showing anger, anxiety, and sadness, and behaviorally in terms of engaging with and responding to toxicity instigators, considering conversations as a whole and the relation between emotions and behaviors. This data-driven study investigates the effect of toxicity on Twitter users' behaviors and emotions considering confounding factors, such as account identifiability, activity, and conversation's structure and topic. We collected about 80K Twitter conversations and identified those with and without toxic replies. Performing statistical tests along with propensity score matching, we investigated the causal association of receiving toxicity and users' responses. We found that authors of conversations with toxic replies are more likely to engage in conversations, reply in a toxic way, and unfollow toxicity instigators. In terms of users' emotional responses, we found that sadness and anger after the first toxic reply are more likely to increase as the amount of toxicity increases. These findings not only emphasize the negative emotional and behavioral effects of online toxicity on social media users but also, as demonstrated in this paper, can be utilized to build prediction models for users' reactions, which could then aid the implementation of proactive detection and intervention measures helping users in such situations.

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Users’ Behavioral and Emotional Response to Toxicity in Twitter Conversations

Aleksandric,

Saha Roy,

Pankaj

et al. 2024

ICWSM

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Indigenous voices: reimagining Indigenous education through a discourse of excellence

Shay,

Miller,

Hameed

et al. 2024

Aust. Educ. Res.

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The persistent deficit positioning of Indigenous students has meant that the combined terms ‘Indigenous education’ and ‘excellence in education’ have been kept separate in mainstream discourse. Excellence in education is an under-theorised concept that must consider intercultural and diverse perspectives. Consequently, this paper aims to understand excellence in education through Indigenous peoples’ perspectives regarding how excellence in Indigenous education is (or could be) enacted in schools. This paper reports on findings from a pilot study with Indigenous community members, principals, teachers, and support staff. The research aimed to address the question: How do Indigenous education practitioners define excellence in Indigenous education? This qualitative study used appreciative inquiry, which allowed for an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon and multiple contextual and localised examples from everyday community members, educational practitioners, and leaders. The data show that employing a language underpinned by strengths can change the conversation, expectations, and aspirations in Indigenous education, as framing through excellence may shift the ideology of policy and, thus, the interpretation of enactment in Indigenous education.

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'Waiting with Bated Breath'

Cited by 2 publications

References 19 publications

Users’ Behavioral and Emotional Response to Toxicity in Twitter Conversations

Users’ Behavioral and Emotional Response to Toxicity in Twitter Conversations

Indigenous voices: reimagining Indigenous education through a discourse of excellence

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