summary: A new study analyzes more than a million jobs associated with online petitions that although moral anger enhances the Publication of the publication, it does not significantly increase the signing of the petition. The emotional and ethical content is widespread on platforms like X (formerly Twitter), but it fails to translate into real collective actions.
On the other hand, posts that emphasize the identity of the group, the agency, and the social intention are generated more signatures, although they have less online participation. These results raise questions about the effectiveness of social media as a tool for meaningful activity and highlighting the increasing gap between digital expression and the effect that is not related to the Internet.
Main facts:
- Firiya work: Ethical anger increases the likes and republishing, but not signs of seam.
- Effective calls: Positive content and collective identity pay more signatures, despite the decrease in participation.
- Digital separation: The study reveals a gap between the attention of social media and the real world activity.
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A new study published in Psychology and social sciences He studies how moral anger expressions on social media are related to activity via the Internet, especially the behavior of a seam signal.
A research team led by Dr. Stefan Leach of the University of Lancaster analyzed more than 1.2 million jobs on X (previously Twitter), which contains links of about 25,000 pets on Change.org.
The results reveal a sudden interruption: While the expressions of moral anger increases significantly from the Pubra Verit (likes and republishing), they do not necessarily translate into other forms of work.
“The platforms are calibrated to pick up attention by inflating moral and emotional content. This can have benefits, such as increasing awareness of injustice by spreading expressions of anger,” explains Dr. Lich.
“At the same time, the results indicate that online moral anger may sometimes fail to translate into other types of collective responses, such as signing the petition, which can affect stakeholders and policy makers.”
The study discovered that the expressions focused on the agency, the identity of the group, and the positive were more vulnerable to the signatures of the petition, although these publications received less attention on social media platforms.
“The most important result is the double cancellation of some kind,” says Dr. Litch.
“We find that the expressions of moral anger are directly related to the online petals, but not the number of signatures they receive.
“Other expressions, such as those related to the help of others (i.e., the positives), were not related to Ferrana, but they predicted more signatures.”
These results come amid increasing concerns about the role of social media in activity and political participation.
“There is increasing concern about the effects of social media on political participation, mental health, educational results, and even our basic ability to focus,” Dr. Lich notes.
“With the continued discussions, it is clear that we need an experimental flat understanding of how these platforms are formed society.”
The research team plans to explore the reason for the failure of online expressions of moral anger in communicating with teamwork in the real world.
“The next step is a better understanding of the reason for the online expressions of ethical anger often not related to other forms of teamwork,” Dr. Litch added.
“Social media facilitates anger, amplifying these expressions, and it can be rewarded with attention and participation. This dynamic may turn priorities and enhance certain types of responses to others.”
Dr. Lich encourages “healthy doubts about the role of social media in activity and teamwork”, noting that although platforms can help increase awareness of injustice, elements are really important in teamwork – just as you learn about the cause and feeling of one can make a difference – this may be in a state of defects in climbing online.
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“Ethical anger predicts the firing of petitions to change on social media, but not the number of signatures they receiveWritten by Stefan Leich and others. Psychology and social sciences
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Ethical anger predicts the firing of petitions to change on social media, but not the number of signatures they receive
Social media is a powerful tool for activists to exchange their views, but concerns continue that the viral spread of moral anger via the Internet may undermine collective causes in some respects.
Analysis of posts on X (N = 1,286,442) with URLs for petitions on www.chance.org (N = 24,785), we found that the expressions of anger were uniquely linked to the number of times that the publications admired and re -spread (viruses).
Mediation analyzes showed that anger was indirectly linked to the number of sits, the signatures received (virus). However, anger has been associated with less signatures when controlling viruses.
On the other hand, the agency’s expressions, group and positive identity were associated with more signatures, but no more viruses.
The results determine the factors associated with communication with online petitions and a description of how social media can inflate the content that has no direct link to the types of efforts that are believed to be usually leading to social change.
2025-05-10 13:30:00
