Meaner on Mobile: Incivility and Impoliteness in Communicating Contentious Politics on Sociotechnical Networks

This study explores the nature of how mobile social media may potentially be sharpening the tenor of communicating online. Specifically, randomized representative Twitter data were collected for several controversial issues, and then examined to determine the extent to which mobile or web-based cont...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jacob Groshek, Chelsea Cutino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-11-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116677137