Over-Time Trends in Incivility on Social Media: Evidence From Political, Non-Political, and Mixed Sub-Reddits Over Eleven Years

Sun, Qiusi; Wojcieszak, Magdalena; Davidson, Sam

doi:10.3389/fpos.2021.741605

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“…These are just a few examples to illustrate that in exercise biology and sport science, as in any place of scientific and social discourse ( 850 – 852 ), we should have passionate arguments but remain fair, civil, agnostic, and open minded, carefully consider alternative results and hypotheses, and constantly challenge, validate, and refine (or refute!) seemingly “established” principles.…”

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confidence: 99%

The molecular athlete: exercise physiology from mechanisms to medals

Furrer

Hawley

Handschin

2023

Physiological Reviews

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Human skeletal muscle demonstrates remarkable plasticity, adapting to numerous external stimuli including the habitual level of contractile loading. Accordingly, muscle function and exercise capacity encompass a broad spectrum, from inactive individuals with low levels of endurance and strength, to elite athletes who produce prodigious performances underpinned by pleiotropic training-induced muscular adaptations. Our current understanding of the signal integration, interpretation and output coordination of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern muscle plasticity across this continuum is incomplete. As such, training methods and their application to elite athletes largely rely on a "trial and error" approach with the experience and practices of successful coaches and athletes often providing the bases for "post hoc" scientific enquiry and research. This review provides a synopsis of the morphological and functional changes along with the molecular mechanisms underlying exercise adaptation to endurance- and resistance-based training. These traits are placed in the context of innate genetic and inter-individual differences in exercise capacity and performance, with special considerations given to the ageing athletes. Collectively, we provide a comprehensive overview of skeletal muscle plasticity in response to different modes of exercise, and how such adaptations translate from "molecules to medals".

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Section: Summary Conclusion and Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The molecular athlete: exercise physiology from mechanisms to medals

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Hawley

Handschin

2023

Physiological Reviews

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“…Incivility has been investigated across various social media platforms in political and health contexts [15][16][17][18][19]. Although a few studies have linked negative emotions with incivility [20], more work is needed in this area to understand the psychological processes that prompt emotion-fueled uncivil discourse.…”

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Incivility in COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Discourse and Moral Foundations: Natural Language Processing Approach

Tin,

Stevens,

Rasul

et al. 2023

JMIR Form Res

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Background Vaccine hesitancy poses a substantial threat to efforts to mitigate the harmful effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. To combat vaccine hesitancy, officials in the United States issued vaccine mandates, which were met with strong antivaccine discourse on social media platforms such as Reddit. The politicized and polarized nature of COVID-19 on social media has fueled uncivil discourse related to vaccine mandates, which is known to decrease confidence in COVID-19 vaccines. Objective This study examines the moral foundations underlying uncivil COVID-19 vaccine discourse. Moral foundations theory poses that individuals make decisions to express approval or disapproval (ie, uncivil discourse) based on innate moral values. We examine whether moral foundations are associated with dimensions of incivility. Further, we explore whether there are any differences in the presence of incivility between the r/coronaviruscirclejerk and r/lockdownskepticism subreddits. Methods Natural language processing methodologies were leveraged to analyze the moral foundations underlying uncivil discourse in 2 prominent antivaccine subreddits, r/coronaviruscirclejerk and r/lockdownskepticism. All posts and comments from both of the subreddits were collected since their inception in March 2022. This was followed by filtering the data set for key terms associated with the COVID-19 vaccine (eg, “vaccinate” and “Pfizer”) and mandates (eg, “forced” and “mandating”). These key terms were selected based on a review of existing literature and because of their salience in both of the subreddits. A 10% sample of the filtered key terms was used for the final analysis. Results Findings suggested that moral foundations play a role in the psychological processes underlying uncivil vaccine mandate discourse. Specifically, we found substantial associations between all moral foundations (ie, care and harm, fairness and cheating, loyalty and betrayal, authority and subversion, and sanctity and degradation) and dimensions of incivility (ie, toxicity, insults, profanity, threat, and identity attack) except for the authority foundation. We also found statistically significant differences between r/coronaviruscirclejerk and r/lockdownskepticism for the presence of the dimensions of incivility. Specifically, the mean of identity attack, insult, toxicity, profanity, and threat in the r/lockdownskepticism subreddit was significantly lower than that in the r/coronaviruscirclejerk subreddit (P<.001). Conclusions This study shows that moral foundations may play a substantial role in the presence of incivility in vaccine discourse. On the basis of the findings of the study, public health practitioners should tailor messaging by addressing the moral values underlying the concerns people may have about vaccines, which could manifest as uncivil discourse. Another way to tailor public health messaging could be to direct it to parts of social media platforms with increased uncivil discourse. By integrating moral foundations, public health messaging may increase compliance and promote civil discourse surrounding COVID-19.

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“…To further understand the public's intentions and behavior to use public transport, future researchers can incorporate and examine other variables such as proenvironmental skepticism [47], social media incivility on public transport [48], public transport patronage [49] to name a few to test the mediating and moderating effects to make the model more robust and contribute to the sustainability scholarship.…”

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Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior to Use Public Transport: A Predictive Approach

Chan¹,

Halmee²,

Samson³

2022

Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication, Language, Education and Social Sciences (CLESS 2022)

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Pro-environmental behavior has become a topic of study in sustainability research. This research aims to examine the factors influencing the public's pro-environmental behavior to use public transport. The study utilized the extended Theory of Planned behavior, where the determinants being examined comprise attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, economic benefits, and media attention. This study employed a quantitative method and applied a purposive sampling technique with 175 valid respondents recorded. The data analysis techniques utilized were descriptive analysis and partial least square through the Statistical Package of Social Science version 26 and Smart-PLS 3.3.9. The findings indicated that only attitude and perceived behavioral control are the predictors of pro-environmental behavior to use public transport, whereas subjective norms, economic benefits, and media attention were not the predictors. The study contributes to the sustainability scholarship by incorporating economic benefits and media attention as an important construct to expand the TPB theory with the societal factors, which provide relevant strategies for the ministry of transport and public transportation companies. Conclusion, implications, and suggestions for future study were also discussed.

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Over-Time Trends in Incivility on Social Media: Evidence From Political, Non-Political, and Mixed Sub-Reddits Over Eleven Years

Cited by 16 publications

References 45 publications

The molecular athlete: exercise physiology from mechanisms to medals

The molecular athlete: exercise physiology from mechanisms to medals

Incivility in COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Discourse and Moral Foundations: Natural Language Processing Approach

Factors Influencing Pro-environmental Behavior to Use Public Transport: A Predictive Approach

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