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Constructive Aggression? Multiple Roles of Aggressive Content in Political Discourse on Russian YouTube
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In: Media and Communication ; 9 ; 1 ; 181-194 ; Dark Participation in Online Communication: The World of the Wicked Web (2022)
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Abstract:
Today, aggressive verbal behavior is generally perceived as a threat to integrity and democratic quality of public discussions, including those online. However, we argue that, in more restrictive political regimes, communicative aggression may play constructive roles in both discussion dynamics and empowerment of political groups. This might be especially true for restrictive political and legal environments like Russia, where obscene speech is prohibited by law in registered media and the political environment does not give much space for voicing discontent. Taking Russian YouTube as an example, we explore the roles of two under-researched types of communicative aggression - obscene speech and politically motivated hate speech - within the publics of video commenters. For that, we use the case of the Moscow protests of 2019 against non-admission of independent and oppositional candidates to run for the Moscow city parliament. The sample of over 77,000 comments for 13 videos of more than 100,000 views has undergone pre-processing and vocabulary-based detection of aggression. To assess the impact of hate speech upon the dynamics of the discussions, we have used Granger tests and assessment of discussion histograms; we have also assessed the selected groups of posts in an exploratory manner. Our findings demonstrate that communicative aggression helps to express immediate support and solidarity. It also contextualizes the criticism towards both the authorities and regime challengers, as well as demarcates the counter-public.
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Anthropologie; communicative aggression; electronic Media; elektronische Medien; hate speech; Interactive; interaktive; journalism; Journalismus,Verlagswesen; Kommunikationssoziologie; networked discussions; News media; obscene speech; political protest; publishing; Publizistische Medien; Russia; Sociolinguistics; Sociology & anthropology; Sociology of Communication; Sociology of Language; Soziolinguistik; Soziologie; Sprachsoziologie; verbal aggression; YouTube
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URL: https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/78085
https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i1.3469
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3469
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Incivility and Political Dissent: Multiple roles of aggressive speech in comments on Russian YouTube
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In: Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2021 ; 4 ; Weizenbaum Conference 2021: Democracy in Flux – Order, Dynamics and Voices in Digital Public Spheres ; 3 (2021)
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