Political and personality predispositions and topical contexts matter: Effects of uncivil comments on science news engagement intentions
Political and personality predispositions and topical contexts matter: Effects of uncivil comments on science news engagement intentions
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政治和个性倾向以及话题背景很重要：不文明评论对科学新闻参与意图的影响
作者：
Leona Yi;Dietram A. Scheufele;D. Brossard;Michael A. Xenos
这项研究建立在现有的研究不文明行为、互动性和消极偏见的理论框架的基础上，促进了越来越多关于网络评论中不文明行为影响的文献。具体地说，它测试了不文明行为对新闻参与意图的影响；调查了政治和个性倾向作为感知过滤器的作用；并将这一学术扩展到多种科学新闻主题的背景下。研究发现，在处理两种政治分歧更大的技术--水力压裂和合成生物学--的新闻时，意识形态缓和了无礼的影响，不文明的评论鼓励保守派参与，但不鼓励自由派参与。然而，在政治分歧较小的纳米技术背景下，自我监控在缓和不文明行为的影响方面发挥了重要作用：高自我监控器更有动力，低自我监控器更不积极，在接触不文明评论后分享纳米技术新闻。这些结果表明，个人倾向和特定话题的因素都是不文明行为对新闻参与意图影响的基础。
Building on existing theoretical frameworks for the study of incivility, interactivity, and negativity bias, this study contributes to the growing body of literature on the impact of incivility in online comments. Specifically, it tests incivility’s impact on news engagement intentions; investigates political and personality predispositions’ roles as perceptual filters; and extends this scholarship to the context of multiple scientific news topics. It found that, when dealing with news about two of the more politically divisive technologies—fracking and synthetic biology—ideology moderated the effects of incivility, with uncivil comments encouraging engagement among conservatives but not among liberals. However, in the less politically divisive context of nanotechnology, self-monitoring played a significant role in moderating incivility’s effects: with high self-monitors being more motivated, and low self-monitors less motivated, to share nanotech news after exposure to uncivil comments. These results imply that individual predispositions and topic-specific factors both underlie the impact of incivility on news engagement intentions.