POSC340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Negative Relationship, Exaggerator, Reduced Properties
22 Dec 2016
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Uncivil discourse can enhance political polarization in society. Political elites and partisans boost levels of incivility in politics when individuals, rather than issues, are attacked. Nasty affect incivility has been found to affect people"s perceptions of the content covered in news articles (extends to perception of the media) Without face-to-face interactions, online users are more likely to use harsh language and attacking comments: insulting language/mockery are most common. Increase of incivility has lead to: erosion of open-mindedness about issues, expectations that public discussion can have multiple points of view, satisfaction with online discussions, enhanced political engagement, perceptions of credibility in a blog, biased perceptions. Uncivil messages are most commonly not based on evidence. 2000: bush: amiable dunce , gore: serial exaggerator ; know-it-all , played a role in opening the internet into a wider public audience i invented the internet . Running on what he"s doing/has done: kerry: flip-flopper . 2008 and 2012: pew research center, september 25th, 2008.
