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Feb 24, 2024 · In public debate, Twitter (now X) is often said to cause detrimental effects on users and society. Here we address this research question by querying 252 participants from a...
Mar 14, 2024 · Researchers at the University of Toronto have confirmed what many have long suspected: using X (formerly known as Twitter) takes a toll on our well-being – although the social media platform itself isn’t entirely to blame.
Mar 6, 2024 · And while having an in-person social interaction was related to a significant increase in subjective wellbeing, Twitter use had a nearly equal effect on users in the other direction — in fact, Twitter use was nearly as negative for people's wellbeing as a social interaction was positive.
Oct 9, 2022 · While Twitter’s uncertain future dominates headlines, a study finds the vast majority of Americans aren’t users of the platform.
- Who Faces Hostility on Twitter?
- Twitter’s Response: How Platform Design Encourages Hostile Interaction
- User Strategies to Avoid Hostility on Twitter
- Saving Face on Twitter and Minimising Exposure
- Two Kinds of Face-Work
- Improving Twitter’s Environment
Hostility on Twitter is disproportionately directed towards women, people of colour and marginalised groups. For example, in 2016 US comedian Leslie Jones was inundated with racist tweetsfollowing the release of the film Ghostbusters. Black and Indigenous sportspeople, such as Adam Goodes, Glen Kamara and Lewis Hamilton, have also been subjected to...
Part of the reason for the degree of hostility on Twitter is because of the way the platform is designed. Sociologist Ian Hutchby called this the “affordances” of a technology: the material possibilities a technology affords its users, the type of actions it enables and constrains. Twitter’s affordances shape how users interact on the site. This in...
In 2019 we conducted an online questionnaire to explore how internet users respond to hostility on Twitter. Our studyfound Twitter users deploy several common strategies to manage hostile interactions on the site. These include the use of pseudonyms and multiple accounts to achieve a degree of anonymity and privacy, as well as blocking users and se...
These observations suggest users are finding ways to “save face” online. The sociologist Erving Goffman called this kind of activity “face-work”. In Goffman’s model, we employ different “faces”to adapt to specific interactions and environments: The aim of face-work is to create a positive impression of ourselves to others. When we “have face”, we s...
Face-work generally occurs in two ways. The first is avoidance, in which people try to avoid face-threatening information or prevent others from seeing it. The second is correction, where people make efforts to apologise for their own face-threatening actions. We can see an example of corrective face-work on Twitter below, where a person’s face is ...
This places Twitter in a difficult situation. Users desire greater control over how they interact, but new features allowing greater control seem to privilege avoidance and may reduce attempts to engage in restorative interactions. Beyond introducing isolated features, which place responsibility on the individual user, Twitter needs to reconsider t...
Mar 1, 2018 · Twitter is wondering whether Twitter is bad for society — and Jack Dorsey is starting new research to find out. How do you measure the health of online interactions? Twitter is determined...
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Research Question: For social media users, controlling for the medium, what is the relationship between self-agency and frequency of Twitter use? Hypotheses 1: There will be a negative association between passive Twitter use and an individual’s perception of self-agency.
