Browsing by Author "Rosenberg, Andres"

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    I Don't Want You to Be My President! Incivility and Media Bias During the Presidential Election in Chile
    (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2020) Saldana, Magdalena; Rosenberg, Andres
    This study observes two relevant issues in today's media ecosystem: incivility in online news comments and media bias during election periods. By analyzing 84 stories and 4670 comments published during the 2017 presidential election in Chile, we observed the extent to which news commenters addressed political figures using uncivil discourse, and the extent to which incivility and media bias were related in comments discussing the election. Results indicate incivility in comment sections of Chilean news outlets is higher than that found in the Global North, and the levels of uncivil speech are even higher when the conversation mentions female politicians, especially former president Michelle Bachelet. We also found a relationship between media bias and user bias-stories positively biased toward current president Sebastian Pinera were associated with more positive comments about him. Implications and future research are discussed.
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    "Incivility makes me angrier than uncivil disagreement": a survey experiment using news comments
    (2024) Rosenberg, Andres
    News comments are a great space for citizen interaction, albeit they lack the rationale that would account for an online deliberative space. Through an experiment embedded into a population-based survey, this study seeks to explain how different levels of both incivility and disagreement affect readers on two key variables: negative emotions and user participation. Results show that the exposure to both incivility alone and uncivil disagreement increases negative emotions by the reader, such as anxiety and anger. However, contrary to what literature suggested, incivility by itself was the group with the biggest increase on negative emotions. In terms of online participation (e.g. putting an extra like in a comment), results showed no evidence to indicate a relationship between incivility, disagreement, and online participation. These results support previous findings suggesting that the exposure to online political incivility has mainly negative consequences.