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A Bad Workman Blames His Tweets: The Consequences of Citizens' Uncivil Twitter Use When Interacting With Party Candidates

Journal of communication, 2016-12, Vol.66 (6), p.1007-1031 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2016 International Communication Association ;ISSN: 0021-9916 ;ISSN: 1460-2466 ;EISSN: 1460-2466 ;DOI: 10.1111/jcom.12259 ;CODEN: JCMNAA

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Title:
A Bad Workman Blames His Tweets: The Consequences of Citizens' Uncivil Twitter Use When Interacting With Party Candidates
Author: Theocharis, Yannis ; Barberá, Pablo ; Fazekas, Zoltán ; Popa, Sebastian Adrian ; Parnet, Olivier
Subjects: Automated Text Analysis ; Automatic text analysis ; Civility ; Communication research ; discourse studies ; Elections ; Europe ; Machine Learning ; Politeness ; Political Communication ; political discourse ; Politicians ; rhetoric and composition ; Social Media ; Social networks ; Twitter
Is Part Of: Journal of communication, 2016-12, Vol.66 (6), p.1007-1031
Description: Existing studies focusing on politicians' adoption of Twitter have found that they use it primarily as a broadcasting tool. We argue that citizens' impolite and/or uncivil behavior is one possible explanation for such decisions. Social media conversations are rife with harassment and politicians are a prime target. This alters the incentive structure of engaging in dialogue on social media. We use Spanish, Greek, German, and U.K. candidates' tweets sent during the run‐up to the recent European Parliament elections, and rely on automated text analysis and machine learning methods to measure their level of civility. Our contribution is an actor‐oriented theory of political dialogue that incorporates Twitter's specific affordances, clarifying how and why Twitter's democratic promise may be limited.
Publisher: Hoboken, USA: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0021-9916
ISSN: 1460-2466
EISSN: 1460-2466
DOI: 10.1111/jcom.12259
CODEN: JCMNAA
Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection

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A Bad Workman Blames His Tweets: The Consequences of Citizens' Uncivil Twitter Use When Interacting With Party Candidates

2016 International Communication Association ;ISSN: 0021-9916 ;ISSN: 1460-2466 ;EISSN: 1460-2466 ;DOI: 10.1111/jcom.12259 ;CODEN: JCMNAA

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