Incivility Dominates Online Comments on Immigration

Santana, Arthur D.

doi:10.1177/073953291503600107

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“…The study of impoliteness in the context of computer-mediated communication (CMC) has flourished in the recent decade encompassing various digital platforms of communication such as e-mail (Graham, 2005), discussion boards or forums (Nishimura, 2008;Upadhyay, 2010;Lorenzo-Dus & Blitvich, 2011), and social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube (Pihlaja, 2011, Rowe, 2013Wang & Silva, 2018). Previous researchers have looked into impoliteness strategies used in various online communication platforms and found similar aspects of linguistic styles and patterns used by different groups of online users (Anderson, 2012;Santana, 2015). A similar finding was established by Oz, Zhen & Cheng (2018) who compared Twitter and Facebook to discover the equivalent level of impoliteness in both sites.…”

Section: Studies On Online Impolitenessmentioning

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Defying Out-group Impoliteness: An Analysis of Users’ Defensive Strategies in Disputing Online Criticisms

Ismail

Shanmuganathan

Shaari

2020

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Online social networking sites have become an integral platform in the development of relationships among Internet users around the world. The Internet has made connectivity faster and stronger than the old days. However, studies have shown that many have misused this platform to incite hatred and animosity when expressing themselves. Online derogatory expressions include the usage of slurs, pejoratives, hate-speech, flaming, and trolling, among others. The present study aims to analyse defensive strategies employed by Facebook commenters on the issue of 1MDB. Three threads of comments and responses towards the political scandal of 1MDB were identified and extracted from Facebook newspaper page. The data was then analysed using the summary of response options and the list of defensive counterstrategies offered by Bousfield (2007). The findings demonstrated the use of defensive strategies by the participants in disputing criticisms of 1MDB issues, particularly comments affecting the reputation of their social group and ethnicity. Most of the participants chose to contradict the opposition directly; and some of them included statements of clarification, explanation or details about the issue together with the arguments. The discussion of the findings offers some novel insights into the field of impoliteness by drawing attention to online users' defensive linguistic behaviour in dealing with out-group impoliteness strategies in online communication.

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Section: Studies On Online Impolitenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Defying Out-group Impoliteness: An Analysis of Users’ Defensive Strategies in Disputing Online Criticisms

Ismail

Shanmuganathan

Shaari

2020

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“…Løvlie, Ihlebaek and Larsson (2018) stated the experience of commenting is particularly meaningful for those whom oppose to a specific media outlet. Santana (2015) concluded that negative discourses in these spaces tend to increase towards immigration issues, based on a survey at sites of three online newspapers in Border States.…”

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Handling with online comments: a longitudinal approach in most accessed news sites in Portugal, Spain and Brazil

Ribeiro

2020

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Online comments have been a widespread feature in news media. Although audiences recognize it widely, doubts remain about the purpose of these interactive spaces. Arguably, understanding how media value online comments defines a way which public debates are socially perceived. Based on The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019, this article analysed current media policies towards online commenting in most accessed news websites in Portugal, Spain and Brazil. Following both a quantitative-qualitative methodology, a direct observation and a textual/visual analysis, this article highlights levels of similarity in these policies: comment sections are still predominantly available (31 from 45); comments are typically placed at the bottom of the page; the interactive options identical (share, like, dislike, report). As the overall cases exclude comment moderation, few media (in Portugal, but mostly in Spain) propose alternative models based on the community: voting, comment ranking and autonomous discussion forums.

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“…La materia migratoria es uno de los temas más polémicos en los comentarios de los usuarios. Así algunas investigaciones sobre comentarios a textos periodísticos vinculados al tema encontraron que las intervenciones negativas eran mayoría, que abundaban las de corte racista (Ferré y Simelio, 2016; y una marcada tendencia hacia un diálogo incivilizado tocante a la migración y los migrantes (Santana, 2015). Además, se ha destacado que la materia migratoria es una de las más complejas de moderar debido a la gran cantidad de mensajes Migración, racismo y xenofobia en internet: análisis del discurso de usuarios • Eduardo TorrE CanTalapiEdra contra los migrantes haitianos en prensa digital mexicana inadecuados que se producen (Ruiz et al, 2010;Diakopoulos y Naaman, 2011;Harris et al, 2014).…”

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Migración y racismo en Internet: análisis de discursos antiinmigrantes de internautas en prensa digital mexicana

Cantalapiedra

2019

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El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar discursos de internautas en contra de los migrantes haitianos en México. Con base en 277 comentarios de usuarios en 24 noticias de la versión digital de El Universal respecto a la migración haitiana –transitando o estableciéndose en el territorio mexicano– publicados entre 2016 y 2018, se analizan los mecanismos discursivos que operan en las intervenciones contrarias a los migrantes. Encontramos que la construcción del migrante haitiano como amenaza es el dispositivo predominante en los discursos antiinmigrantes y que el refugiado haitiano es caracterizado como un vividor a expensas del erario público.

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Incivility Dominates Online Comments on Immigration

Abstract: An analysis of reader comments on the sites of three online newspapers in border states finds a much higher percentage of uncivil comments following stories about immigration than those following stories about the Tea Party.

Cited by 30 publications

References 6 publications

Defying Out-group Impoliteness: An Analysis of Users’ Defensive Strategies in Disputing Online Criticisms

Defying Out-group Impoliteness: An Analysis of Users’ Defensive Strategies in Disputing Online Criticisms

Handling with online comments: a longitudinal approach in most accessed news sites in Portugal, Spain and Brazil

Migración y racismo en Internet: análisis de discursos antiinmigrantes de internautas en prensa digital mexicana

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