Low Civility and High Incivility in Russian Online Deliberation

Civility vs. Incivility in Online Social Interactions: An Evolutionary Approach

Evidence is growing that forms of incivility-e.g. aggressive and disrespectful behaviors, harassment, hate speech and outrageous claims-are spreading in the population of social networking sites' (SNS) users. Online social networks such as Facebook allow users to regularly interact with known and unknown others, who can behave either politely or rudely. This leads individuals not only to learn ...

Civility/Incivility in the College Classroom

Incivility is any kind of disruptive classroom behavior that shows disrespect or disregard for the instructor and fellowstudents. It can dramatically diminish the effectiveness of a course and cause great stress for the instructor. This section starts with several sites that describe forms of incivility, suggestions for handling it, and current research on incivility. The remaining links provid...

Civility 2.0: A comparative analysis of incivility in online political discussion

Online political discussion amongst citizens has often been labelled uncivil. Indeed, as online discussion allows participants to remain relatively anonymous, and by extension, unaccountable for their behaviour, citizens often engage in angry, hostile, and derogatory discussion, taking the opportunity to attack the beliefs and values of others without fear of retribution. Some commentators beli...

Getting better and staying better: assessing civility, incivility, distress, and job attitudes one year after a civility intervention.

Health care providers (n = 1,957) in Canada participated in a project to assess an intervention to enhance workplace civility. They completed surveys before the intervention, immediately after the intervention, and one year later. Results highlighted three patterns of change over the three assessments. These data were contrasted with data from control groups, which remained constant over the st...

Online Deliberation and Civic Intelligence