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Crisis Communication and Public Perception of COVID-19 Risk in the Era of Social Media Open
A number of important principles in effective risk communication established in the late 20th century can provide important scientific insight into patient response to the risks posed by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Early risk comm…
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How social learning amplifies moral outrage expression in online social networks Open
Social reinforcement and norm learning interact with social media design to amplify moral outrage in online social networks.
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Digital Social Norm Enforcement: Online Firestorms in Social Media Open
Actors of public interest today have to fear the adverse impact that stems from social media platforms. Any controversial behavior may promptly trigger temporal, but potentially devastating storms of emotional and aggressive outrage, so ca…
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Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities* Open
This article presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages. We have assembled a novel data set, where information on political institutions for northern central Italian cities be…
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Disgust and Anger Relate to Different Aggressive Responses to Moral Violations Open
In response to the same moral violation, some people report experiencing anger, and others report feeling disgust. Do differences in emotional responses to moral violations reflect idiosyncratic differences in the communication of outrage,…
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Mapping the Ethicality of Algorithmic Pricing: A Review of Dynamic and Personalized Pricing Open
Firms increasingly deploy algorithmic pricing approaches to determine what to charge for their goods and services. Algorithmic pricing can discriminate prices both dynamically over time and personally depending on individual consumer infor…
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Morally Motivated Networked Harassment as Normative Reinforcement Open
While online harassment is recognized as a significant problem, most scholarship focuses on descriptions of harassment and its effects. We lack explanations of why people engage in online harassment beyond simple bias or dislike. This arti…
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What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter Open
This paper examines the ways that social movement organizations affiliated with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement use Twitter through three content analysis studies. The main finding presented in the paper is that the modal tweet gener…
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Cultural Collectivism and Tightness Moderate Responses to Norm Violators: Effects on Power Perception, Moral Emotions, and Leader Support Open
Responses to norm violators are poorly understood. On one hand, norm violators are perceived as powerful, which may help them to get ahead. On the other hand, norm violators evoke moral outrage, which may frustrate their upward social mobi…
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The moral imperative to continue gene editing research on human embryos Open
The publication of the first study to use gene editing techniques in human embryos (Liang et al., 2015) has drawn outrage from many in the scientific community. The prestigious scientific journals Nature and Science have published commenta…
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Algorithmic discrimination causes less moral outrage than human discrimination. Open
Companies and governments are using algorithms to improve decision-making for hiring, medical treatments, and parole. The use of algorithms holds promise for overcoming human biases in decision-making, but they frequently make decisions th…
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Reckoning up: sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university Open
This paper situates sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university. Using data from a ‘composite ethnography’ representing twelve years of research, I argue that institutional inaction on these issues reflects how they are ‘re…
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Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens Open
Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online requires people to adopt new mental habits that help them …
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Black Lives Matter: Claiming a Space for Evidence-Based Outrage in Obstetrics and Gynecology Open
The authors reflect on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) social movement in relation to the pregnancy-related deaths of black women in the U.S., and it mentions evidence-based outrage, racial disparities in medical research, and a call for obst…
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Hypocrisy and Moral Authority Open
Hypocrites invite moral opprobrium, and charges of hypocrisy are a significant and widespread feature of our moral lives. Yet it remains unclear what hypocrites have in common, or what is distinctively bad about them. We propose that hypoc…
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How Moments Become Movements: Shared Outrage, Group Cohesion, and the Lion That Went Viral Open
Can moments of viral media activity transform into enduring activist movements? The killing of Cecil the lion by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe in 2015 attracted global attention and generated enduring conservation activism in the form of mon…
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Beyond Moral Outrage — Weighing the Trade-Offs of COI Regulation Open
By casting physician–industry interactions as a moral issue, the conflict-of-interest movement has subverted rational weighing of trade-offs. The resulting gotcha quest has paradoxically resulted in an erosion of public trust in medicine a…
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Angry by design: toxic communication and technical architectures Open
Hate speech and toxic communication online is on the rise. Responses to this issue tend to offer technical (automated) or non-technical (human content moderation) solutions, or see hate speech as a natural product of hateful people. In con…
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Teens’ Motivations to Spread Fake News on WhatsApp Open
Younger people are exposed to misinformation that circulates rapidly on their mobile devices through instant messaging applications such as WhatsApp. Under the guise of news, an attractive format and outrage discourse, fake news appeal to …
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The S treisand effec t and censorship backfir e Open
Barbra Streisand's attempt to restrict online views of her residence on a public website had the paradoxical effect of leading to many more views than if she had done nothing. Subsequently, attempts at censorship that end up being counterp…
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Hostile urban architecture: A critical discussion of the seemingly offensive art of keeping people away Open
For many years, some urban architecture has aimed to exclude unwanted groups of people from some locations. This type of architecture is called “defensive” or “hostile” architecture and includes benches that cannot be slept on, spikes in t…
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Social Media for Social Good or Evil: An Introduction Open
In the heyday of social media, individuals around the world held high hopes for the democratizing force of social media; however, in light of the recent public outcry of privacy violations, fake news, and Russian troll farms, much of optim…
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Crisis and Image Repair at United Airlines: Fly the Unfriendly Skies Open
In April 2017, United Airlines had a passenger removed from one of its airplanes. Video of the bleeding man being dragged off through the aisle went viral the next day. United’s initial response attempted to downplay this offensive act (re…
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Applications of extreme value statistics in physics Open
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Media coverage of violence against women in India: a systematic study of a high profile rape case Open
The global media response of the December 16th gang-rape in India resulted in highly inconsistent depiction of the events. These findings suggest that although the spread of information through media is fast, it has major limitations.
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The “Great Meme War:” the Alt-Right and its Multifarious Enemies Open
In this essay, I discuss how the alt-right has brought back into fashion traditional tenets of the reactionary, xenophobic, and often racist far-right, as demonstrated by George Hawley, and how it has managed to make these tenets appear as…
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Demand and Deliver: Refugee Support Organisations in Austria Open
This article analyses four emerging refugee support organisations in Austria, founded before the so-called refugee crisis in 2015. It argues that these organisations have managed to occupy a middle space between mainstream NGOs and social …
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News consumption and risk perception of Covid-19 in Spain Open
Spain is one of the countries that has been most severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. In times of uncertainty and stress, the media plays an important role in disseminating information. This study establishes which factors affected …
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Racism and Structural Violence: Interconnected Threats to Health Equity Open
In 2020, the continuing murder of Black Americans by police officers received widespread media attention and sparked global outrage. Public health responses to these events focused on discrimination by police and structural racism in broad…
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Understanding the factors affecting consumers’ behaviour when purchasing refurbished products: A chaordic perspective Open
This paper seeks to develop an integrated conceptual framework to explain the conditions that lead to consumers' behaviour when purchasing refurbished products. Innovative methodology was used, including “fuzzy-set qualitative comparative …