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#socialscience

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RDN

Analysis of over 6.500 comment replies on social media identified seven different types of counters to objectionable comments. Though *ad hominem* attacks made up more than 40% of the replies, the prosocial tactics of moral corruption and logical disqualification together made up the second largest group of replies.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti

journals.plos.orgBeyond ad hominem attacks: A typology of the discursive tactics used when objecting to news commentary on social mediaSocial media platforms increasingly serve as the primary place where people participate in public conversations about news. In these conversations, ad hominem attacks are quite common. Such ad hominem attacks might be influenced by underlying cognitive or affective goals, such as to discredit a purveyor of falsified evidence or to signal social distance from a hateful provocateur. They may also be driven by a simple operative goal: to stop what was said. When ad hominem attacks are used to stop the comments of another person, we refer to it as a discursive objection tactic. In this paper, we explore the prevalence of ad hominem attacks and characteristics of other discursive tactics used by people when objecting to online news commentary. First, we conducted a content analysis of more than 6,500 comment replies to trending news videos on YouTube and Twitter and identified seven distinct discursive objection tactics. Second, we examined the frequency of each tactic’s occurrence from the 6,500 comment replies, as well as from a second sample of 2,004 replies. Our findings confirm that while ad hominem attacks are the most common discursive tactic used to object to news commentary, people also deploy a diversity of other discursive objection tactics. The resulting typology offers a comprehensive account of grassroots efforts which utilize deterrent speech, nonaccommodative communication and prosocial strategies.
#Science#SocialScience#Argumentation
Centre for Population Change

“#Pronatalist policies have been shown as ‘impotent’ in budging the long-term #fertility rates. The root problems are #economic uncertainty, problems with #housing, #childcare availability and #gender #inequality in the household," said Connecting Generations Co-Director Professor Melinda Mills MBE in today's The Telegraph:

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/

#demography#population#birthrates
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Centre for Population Change

🗓️ Another date for your diaries - CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni is also a speaker at 2025's final National Centre for Research Methods #NCRM Data Resources Training Network webinar on 19 November:

'Exploring #digital life, #technology change & attitudes to #AI through national #datasets'

Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/eve

#demography#population#socialscience
Giuseppe Lipari

Martedì prossimo a Palermo presenteremo il libro "Guerra all'Antisemitismo?" (Altreconomia, 2024) di Donatella della Porta all'Istituto Gramsci Siciliano di #Palermo.

A seguire una tavola rotonda sulla repressione delle voci contro il #genocidio e sull'uso strumentale dell'accusa di antisemitismo per marginalizzare chi sostiene la #Palestina.

Vi aspettiamo!

altreconomia.it/eventi/present

#sociology#socialscience#politicalscience
Susan Ville

📲 #recommended #talk - #research - Ray Regal confronts the question of whether Holocaust studies ever been about the true #history of the event. In reality, the field has manufactured the exceptionality of the Jewish people and Israel.

#law #ihl

#palestine #gaza #genocideconvention
#socialscience

#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#genevaconvention

Video credit: Chris Hedges

youtube.com/watch?v=Y4rcAAAm1CQ

YouTubeThe Death of Holocaust Studies (w/ Raz Segal) | The Chris Hedges ReportBy The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
Centre for Population Change

CPC-CG members Professor Jackie Wahba OBE and Professor Athina Vlachantoni have been announced as #REF 2029 Sub-panel members for #Economics and #Econometrics, and #SocialWork and #SocialPolicy, respectively.

They join CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham CBE who is Chair of Main Panel C– #SocialSciences. Full story: cpc.ac.uk/news/latest_news/?ac

#researchexcellenceframework#demography#research
Weizenbaum-Institut

Wie wirkt sich #SocialMedia -Konsum auf die politische Meinungsbildung aus? Mit dieser Frage befasst sich ein Filmscreening mit Publikumsgespräch mit Annika Baumann, Merja Mahrt und @dscheykopp am 22. September 2025.

In Kooperation mit @BeLapoBi

Jetzt anmelden: weizenbaum-institut.de/veranst

@WZB_Berlin @freieuniversitaet @tuberlin @unipotsdam @FOKUSpublic #wisskomm #socialscience #politischebildung

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