Published 2022
“…
I make five noteworthy observations for extensions and future scholarship: (
1) there is
a strong predictive relationship between political incivility and intolerance; (
2) Twitter structures can hinder productive sublimation of anger to persuasive arguments; (
3)
a small set of hyper-active users dominate the uncivil and intolerant communications; (
4) there is little relationship between anonymity, political incivility and intolerance; and (
5) there is
a link between political incivility, intolerance, and the rise of populism and reactionary backlash. …”
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