Characterizing Disagreement in Online Political Talk: Examining Incivility and Opinion Expression on News Websites and Facebook in Brazil
Characterizing Disagreement in Online Political Talk: Examining Incivility and Opinion Expression on News Websites and Facebook in Brazil
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描述在线政治谈话中的分歧：检查巴西新闻网站和 Facebook 上的不礼貌行为和意见表达
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2021
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R. Maia
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Patrícia G. C. Rossini;R. Maia
本文考察了人们在巴西两个不同的非正式平台：Facebook和新闻网站上接触政治新闻所引发的政治对话的方式。我们分析了分歧在多大程度上与通常与审慎行为相关的话语特征（如直接与他人交往，并试图证明自己的观点）和消极特征（如不文明）相关。本文的贡献可以概括如下。首先，本文强调了超越单一平台和单一主题来理解在线政治讨论的重要性。其次，我们证明了在线分歧与协商特征（如合理的意见表达）和非协商特征（如不文明）呈正相关，并认为后者不足以否定政治谈话的价值。我们还证明，新闻报道的主题与推动政治对话和引发政治分歧都是相关的：与更传统的政治话题（如政府、政策）相比，涉及名人和报道国际事务的争议更有可能推动异类对话，尽管这些话题往往会吸引更多的政治话题。最后，本研究填补了文献中的一个重要空白，通过研究世界第四大数字市场巴西的政治谈话，超越了美国和西欧的背景。
This article examines the ways people engage in political conversation triggered by exposure to political news in two different informal platforms in Brazil: Facebook and news websites. We analyze the extent to which disagreement is associated to discursive traits that are commonly associated with deliberative behavior, such as directly engaging with others, and trying to justify one’s views, and negative traits, such as incivility. The contributions of this article can be summarized as follows. First, this article emphasizes the importance of looking beyond a single platform and a single topic to understand political discussion online. Second, we demonstrate that online disagreement is positively associated with both deliberative traits, such as justified opinion expression, and nondeliberative traits, such as incivility, and argue that the latter is not enough to dismiss the value of political talk. We also demonstrate that the topic of a news story is relevant both to drive political conversation and to spark political disagreement: controversies involving celebrities and stories covering international affairs are more likely to drive heterogeneous conversations than more conventional political topics (e.g., government, policy), even though these are the topics that tend to attract more political talk. Finally, this study contributes to fill an important gap in the literature, looking beyond the United States and Western European contexts by examining political talk in Brazil, the fourth largest digital market in the world.