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Incivility

Marike Bormann & Marc Ziegele
 

Berlin, 2023
DOI 10.48541/dcr.v12.12 (SSOAR)

Abstract: Incivility is considered a significant challenge for democratic discourse and has been the subject of many studies in a variety of contexts. Although political incivility has a long research tradition, and scholarly attention toward the phenomenon has increased with the advance of social media, there is academic controversy regarding the concept and normative implications of incivility in political contexts. This chapter provides an overview of different incivility approaches in the extant literature, discusses key challenges in incivility research, and outlines normative implications. Further, we suggest future directions for incivility research and argue why an integrative, multidimensional concept of incivility offers great potential for incivility research in the field of political (online) communication.
 

 

Marike Bormann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. ORCID logo

Marc Ziegele is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. ORCID logo

Bormann, M., & Ziegele, M. (2023). Incivility. In C. Strippel, S. Paasch-Colberg, M. Emmer, & J. Trebbe (Eds.), Challenges and perspectives of hate speech research (pp. 199–217). Digital Communication Research. https://doi.org/10.48541/dcr.v12.12

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