Breakdown of Democratic Norms? Understanding the 2016 US Presidential Election Through Online Comments
This study examined how comments posted on news stories about the 2016 presidential election reflected the disruptive discourses of the campaign itself. A quantitative content analysis and a qualitative textual analysis of user-generated comments ( N = 1,881) showed that while incivility was less f...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2019-05-01
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Series: | Social Media + Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305119843637 |