Angry tweets

Autor(en)

Melanie Saumer, Kateryna Maikovska, Ariadne Neureiter, Anastasia Cepelova, Hendrik van Scharrel, Jörg Matthes

Abstrakt

Hostile speech by politicians is increasingly prevalent on social media, especially for regular social media users. However, studies that compare the effects of political incivility versus intolerance on recipients’ emotions, political distrust, and political participation intentions are lacking. Findings of an experimental study (N = 297) indicated that uncivil speech had no significant effect on young recipients’ negative emotions. In contrast, intolerant speech elicited negative emotions, which increased political distrust and political participation intentions. Further, we assumed that a female politician using incivility/intolerance elicits stronger emotional reactions than a male politician. However, effects appeared independent of the gender of the communicator. Implications are discussed.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Journal

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

Seiten

1-17

ISSN

1933-1681

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2024.2433760

Publikationsdatum

11-2024

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Computerwissenschaft, Sociology and Political Science, Public administration

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/f401ca60-488d-4591-8f01-faeed3e0adb1