Credibility in Context: How Uncivil Online Commentary Affects News Credibility

By Kjerstin Thorson, Emily K. Vraga, Brian Ekdale. 2010

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Nudge Effect of Fact-Check Alerts: Source Influence and Media Skepticism on Sharing of News Misinformation in Social Media (2020, background): “Users’ propensity to discount the overall credibility of faulty content linked to reputable news sources (Thorson et al., 2010) would actually be stronger than their confirmation of the perceived non-credibility of content consistent with an unfamiliar non-mainstream source that is perceivably less…”
Online Social Influence and the Convergence of Mass and Interpersonal Communication (2017, background): “Using this perspective, Thorson, Vraga, and Ekdale (2010) experimentally examined news stories embedded in a fictitious blogger’s site, where the blogger posted accompanying high- or low-credibility commentary, in either a civil or uncivil manner.”
A Bad Workman Blames His Tweets? The Consequences of Citizens’ Uncivil Twitter Use When Interacting with Party Candidates (2016, background): “…statements as less fair, informative and credible (Brooks and Geer, 2007; Ng and Detenberg, 2005) (But see the study by Thorson and colleagues (Thorson et al., 2010) who, however, operationalise incivility only as derogatory, bad-mannered comments) 4Previous studies have shown that this is…”
Measuring Social Media Credibility: A Study on a Measure of Blog Credibility (2011, background): “Several previous studies on blog credibility were conducted to compare credibility of blogs with other traditional news media (Banning & Sweetser, 2007; Johnson & Kaye, 1998, 2009; Thorson, et al., 2010).”
Personal and Public Levels of Political Incivility (2017, background): “Some experimental studies have demonstrated that messages with personal-level incivility amplified partisan responses compared with messages with no incivility (Mutz, 2015; Thorson et al., 2010), though whether this is also true for public-level incivility is unknown.”