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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"opinion expression"”.
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How Do Discussion Heterogeneity and Incivility Affect Opinion Expression and Polarization
… - as predictors to examine their effects on opinion expression, political polarization and response incivility. It fills a research gap by comparing 2 types of heterogeneity and homogeneity. It integrates group polarization theory in social psychology with empirical studies in communication …
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Unintended Politics: The Prevalence of Partisan Opinion Expression in Incidental Political Discussions
… discussions are more likely to contain partisan opinion expression on the same issue than purposive political discussions. In addition, the level of incivility did not differ between the two kinds of discussions. This study implies that non-political spaces may become more partisan than political …
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The twitter citizen : contributing to civil society discussion or adding to the noise?
… facilitate at least some viewpoints to popular expression otherwise absent from print media. Data sources included Twitter hashtag communities that formed around the 2013 Alberta Budget and the associated print media coverage. This inquiry found that while diverse actors contribute to the …
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#RodneyReed: a content and thematic analysis of a trending innocence campaign
… the public through information dissemination, opinion expression, and online activism (Sandoval-Almazan & Gil-Garcia, 2014). To better understand this viral campaign, we conducted a content and thematic analysis of 740 randomly sampled tweets that included “#RodneyReed” between February 13th, …
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Representation of viewpoint in opinion discourse : a comparative linguistic investigation of Arabic and British newspapers at time of conflict
… proceeds from a theoretical assumption, that opinion discourse during wartime manipulates readers to respond in certain ways to the events of war and the participants in conflicts. The freedom offered to opinion expression is sometimes abusively exploited particularly when opposing …
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Why do people become toxic online? A systematic exploration of motivators of toxic online communication
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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An association rule dynamics and classification approach to event detection and tracking in Twitter.
… for information dissemination as well as for opinion expression by different entities is now common. This has also brought with it the issue of computational challenges of extracting newsworthy contents from Twitter noisy data. Considering the enormous volume of data Twitter generates, users …