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Incivility and Intolerance in COVID-19 Discussions on Facebook

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F23%3A00132084" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/23:00132084 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/20563051231207848" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/20563051231207848</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051231207848" target="_blank" >10.1177/20563051231207848</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Incivility and Intolerance in COVID-19 Discussions on Facebook

  • Original language description

    The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled heated discussions and intensified polarization in the exchange of opinions. Due to strict government restrictions, including a hard lockdown, much of this debate took place online. In this study, we examine how Czechs engaged in political discussions on Facebook during the pandemic. This research looks into the occurrence of incivility and intolerance and the similarities/contrasts with normatively desirable discursive features. We also focus on the perception of differences between various types of antinormative expressions among participants in online discussions and their roles. We use a mixed-method approach: a quantitative content analysis of comments on the Facebook pages of two of the Czech Republic’s most popular news media outlets (i.e., public service television, ČT24, and commercial television, TN.CZ) and two top Czech politicians (Andrej Babiš and Tomio Okamura); and qualitative interviews with 20 participants collected during the Springs of 2021. Data were downloaded by Facepager during the hard lockdown in the Czech Republic (March and April 2021), and the final sample consisted of 1,792 comments. We reveal that incivility, when expressed with a justified opinion, was less likely to directly attack other commenters within the thread. We also observe differences in the amount of incivility in politicians’ pages compared to the news media. Incivility has increased over time since the hard lockdown started. We address the implications of different conditions in which incivility and intolerance occurred and their impact on deliberative democracy.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA19-24724S" target="_blank" >GA19-24724S: Political polarization in the Czech Republic: The case of multi-party system</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Social Media + Society

  • ISSN

    2056-3051

  • e-ISSN

    2056-3051

  • Volume of the periodical

    9

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    4

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    12

  • Pages from-to

    1-12

  • UT code for WoS article

    001091566800001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85175353742