A Bad Workman Blames His Tweets: The Consequences of Citizens' Uncivil Twitter Use When Interacting With Party Candidates
A Bad Workman Blames His Tweets: The Consequences of Citizens' Uncivil Twitter Use When Interacting With Party Candidates
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DOI：
10.1111/jcom.12259
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发表时间：
2016-12-01
影响因子：
7.9
通讯作者：
Parnet, Olivier
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作者：
Theocharis, Yannis;Barbera, Pablo;Parnet, Olivier
现有的关于政治家使用Twitter的研究发现，他们主要将其用作广播工具。我们认为，公民的不礼貌和/或不文明的行为是一个可能的解释，这样的决定。社交媒体上的谈话充斥着骚扰，政客是主要目标。这改变了参与社交媒体对话的激励结构。我们使用西班牙语、希腊语、德语和英国语。候选人在最近的欧洲议会选举期间发送的推文，并依靠自动文本分析和机器学习方法来衡量他们的文明程度。我们的贡献是一个面向行动者的政治对话理论，结合Twitter的具体启示，澄清如何以及为什么Twitter的民主承诺可能是有限的。
Existing studies focusing on politicians' adoption of Twitter have found that they use it primarily as a broadcasting tool. We argue that citizens' impolite and/or uncivil behavior is one possible explanation for such decisions. Social media conversations are rife with harassment and politicians are a prime target. This alters the incentive structure of engaging in dialogue on social media. We use Spanish, Greek, German, and U.K. candidates' tweets sent during the run-up to the recent European Parliament elections, and rely on automated text analysis and machine learning methods to measure their level of civility. Our contribution is an actor-oriented theory of political dialogue that incorporates Twitter's specific affordances, clarifying how and why Twitter's democratic promise may be limited.