How you feel makes you what you are: Partisan reactions to political incivility online

Kjerstin Thorson; Timothy Fung; Emily Vraga

How you feel makes you what you are: Partisan reactions to political incivility online

Kjerstin Thorson
, Timothy Fung
, Emily Vraga

Department of Interactive Media

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This study brings together two debates: fears about an increasingly polarized electorate and the effects of uncivil political discourse, especially in the blogosphere. We explore the effects of an uncivil, attacking message on group identification and polarization. We find that uncivil messages provoke negative emotional responses among partisans, which can mediate changes in partisan identification, but this process depends on whether the respondents identified with the attacking or the attacked group.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Aug 2008
Event	91st Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC 2008 - Chicago, United States Duration: 6 Aug 2008 → 9 Aug 2008

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Conference	91st Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC 2008
Country/Territory	United States
City	Chicago
Period	6/08/08 → 9/08/08

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How you feel makes you what you are: Partisan reactions to political incivility online. / Thorson, Kjerstin; Fung, Timothy; Vraga, Emily.
2008. Paper presented at 91st Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC 2008, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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