Civility and trust in social media

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ANTOCI Angelo BONELLI Laura PAGLIERI Fabio REGGIANI Tommaso SABATINI Fabio

Rok publikování 2019
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Ekonomicko-správní fakulta

Citace
www https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268119300563
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.02.026
Klíčová slova Social media; Facebook; Online incivility; Trust; Social networks; Cooperation; Trust game
Přiložené soubory
Popis Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile to many users. We conduct a novel experiment in a Facebook setting to study how the effect of social media on trust varies depending on the civility or incivility of online interaction. We find that participants exposed to civil Facebook interaction are significantly more trusting. In contrast, when the use of Facebook is accompanied by the experience of online incivility, no significant changes occur in users’ behavior. These results are robust to alternative configurations of the treatments.
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