Journal ArticleDOI
Social media as a catalyst for online deliberation? Exploring the affordances of Facebook and YouTube for political expression
Daniel Halpern,Jennifer L. Gibbs +1 more
TLDR
It is predicted that political discussions in Facebook will present a more egalitarian distribution of comments between discussants and higher level of politeness in their messages, whereas politeness is lower in the more anonymous and deindividuated YouTube.About:
This article is published in Computers in Human Behavior.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 454 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Online deliberation & Social media.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal Article
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
Journal ArticleDOI
Explicating Affordances: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Affordances in Communication Research
TL;DR: This study aims to clarify inconsistencies regarding the term affordances by examining how affordances terminology is used in empirical research on communication and technology through an analysis of 82 communication-oriented scholarly works on affordances.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Digital Architectures of Social Media: Comparing Political Campaigning on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat in the 2016 U.S. Election:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that political communication on social media is mediated by a platform's digital architecture, the technical protocols that enable, constrain, and shape user behavior in a virtual space.
Journal ArticleDOI
Civility 2.0: a comparative analysis of incivility in online political discussion
TL;DR: This article analyzed the content of discussion as it occurs in response to political news content on the Washington Post Facebook, and comparing it to that which occurs on The Washington Post website where users are afforded a relatively high level of anonymity.
References
More filters
Book
Content analysis: an introduction to its methodology
TL;DR: History Conceptual Foundations Uses and Kinds of Inference The Logic of Content Analysis Designs Unitizing Sampling Recording Data Languages Constructs for Inference Analytical Techniques The Use of Computers Reliability Validity A Practical Guide
Journal Article
The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society
Jürgen Habermas,Thomas Burgerm +1 more
TL;DR: A preliminary demarcation of a type of Bourgeois public sphere can be found in this article, where the authors remark on the type representative publicness on the genesis of the Bourgois Public Sphere.
Journal Article
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
Book
Differentiation between social groups: Studies in the social psychology of intergroup relations.
Book
Social psychological aspects of computer-mediated communication
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how people participate in computer-mediated communication and how computerization affects group efforts to reach consensus, and they find that participants are more likely to report negative effects of computer mediated communication on their mental health.