Signaling silence: Affective and cognitive responses to risks of online activism about corruption in an authoritarian context

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buir.contributor.authorDal, Ayşenur
buir.contributor.orcidDal, Ayşenur|0000-0003-2868-0282
dc.citation.epage19en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber0en_US
dc.citation.spage1en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber0en_US
dc.contributor.authorDal, Ayşenur
dc.contributor.authorNisbet, E. C.
dc.contributor.authorKamenchuk, O.
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-16T12:06:17Z
dc.date.available2023-02-16T12:06:17Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentDepartment of Communication and Designen_US
dc.description.abstractNetworked authoritarian governments’ use of digital repression creates uncertainty and amplifies risk signals for ordinary citizens using social media for political expression. Employing theoretical frameworks from the risk and decision-making literature, we experimentally examine how citizens perceive and respond to the risks of low-effort forms of online activism in an authoritarian context. Our online field experiment demonstrates that emotional responses to the regime’s risk signals about online activism drive decisionmaking about contentious online political expression as compared with cognitive appraisal of risk. Moreover, the relationship between anticipatory emotions and contentious online political expression varies significantly depending on individuals’ involvement with the controversial topic of expression. We discuss the importance of emotions and citizen risk judgments for understanding online activism within networked authoritarian contexts.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/14614448221135861en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1461-7315
dc.identifier.issn1461-4448
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/111456
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSAGEen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14614448221135861en_US
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 4.0 DEED (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.source.titleNew Media & Societyen_US
dc.subjectAuthoritarianismen_US
dc.subjectDigital repressionen_US
dc.subjectOnline activismen_US
dc.subjectPolitical expressionen_US
dc.subjectRisk perceptionsen_US
dc.subjectSocial mediaen_US
dc.titleSignaling silence: Affective and cognitive responses to risks of online activism about corruption in an authoritarian contexten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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