Reply and Reaction: How Interactive Features Regulate Communication Dynamics on Social Media

EasyChair Preprint 6002

Abstract

A pre-registered web experiment examined how reply and reaction (upvote and downvote) -- two of social media's most frequently employed interactive features -- affect the communication dynamics of political discussions on a messaging platform custom-designed by the researchers.

Keyphrases: Policy discussion, political communication, social media, web experiment

@booklet{EasyChair:6002,
  author    = {Alvin Zhou and Kokil Jaidka and Harshit Aneja and Yphtach Lelkes},
  title     = {Reply and Reaction: How Interactive Features Regulate Communication Dynamics on Social Media},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 6002},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}