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Gina Masullo Chen
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 51
Citations - 1910
Gina Masullo Chen is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Incivility & Social media. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 51 publications receiving 1505 citations. Previous affiliations of Gina Masullo Chen include University of Southern Mississippi & Syracuse University.
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Tweet this: A uses and gratifications perspective on how active Twitter use gratifies a need to connect with others
TL;DR: Hierarchical OLS regression of survey results from 317 Twitter users found that the more months a person is active on Twitter and the more hours per week a person spends on Twitter, the more the person gratifies a need for an informal sense of camaraderie, called connection, with other users.
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‘You really have to have a thick skin’: A cross-cultural perspective on how online harassment influences female journalists:
Gina Masullo Chen,Paromita Pain,Victoria Y. Chen,Madlin Mekelburg,Nina Springer,Franziska Troger +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, 75 female journalists who work or have worked in Germany, India, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the United States of America reveal that they face rampant online gendered discrimination.
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Twitter versus Facebook: Comparing incivility, impoliteness, and deliberative attributes
TL;DR: Results suggest that both the varying affordances of the two platforms and the fact that the two sites may attract different types of people might explain the variations in frequency of incivility and impoliteness on Twitter versus Facebook.
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Online Political Discourse: Exploring Differences in Effects of Civil and Uncivil Disagreement in News Website Comments
Gina Masullo Chen,Shuning Lu +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that uncivil disagreement led people to respond back uncivilly and indirectly led to greater intention to participate politically, if it aroused aggressive feelings, and that both forms of disagreement caused negative emotion and aggressive intentions.
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Why do we tag photographs on Facebook? Proposing a new gratifications scale
TL;DR: A 35-item instrument for measuring gratifications of photo-tagging on Facebook is developed and validated and offers nine gratifications: likes and comments, social influence, peer pressure, gains popularity, entertainment, feels good, social sharing, affection, and convenience.